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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"My hon. Friend highlights exactly what the debate is all about. I will be coming to exactly that issue in a moment.

There are now a host of portable devices—they are actually called nomadic dedicated devices—that people can put in their pocket and in different vehicles that they own. They …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"If my hon. Friend will let me continue just a little bit further, I will address the potential solutions.

We all realise the dominance of Google in our lives and on every machine that we own. Google Maps is a widely used application, but the downside for many of us …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"On the Navteq website, the public have the ability to put in new data as they arise. The company will then check those data and, if it is satisfied with their quality, they will become a new variant of future maps that it produces. Everybody is able to update those …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"My hon. Friend makes a very good point about not just the physical damage that occurs to road structures and historical buildings, but the economic cost of hours of tailbacks. One could probably make a reasonable guesstimate of what that cost would be in an individual place but, as my …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. Not only do we have physical damage but we have the economic costs and the serious issue of road safety in areas that should not be affected by having such huge lorries in the wrong places.

Sandwich in South …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"My hon. Friend makes the perfect point. I have many residents in Sandwich who are fearful for their property and for their very life, and he raises that problem well.

I would never call myself a luddite, but consulting a good old-fashioned road map always seems to result in greater …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles

"I thank you, Sir Alan, for your excellent chairmanship. It would have been nice to have a few more Members with us, but there is activity elsewhere. It would be stretching it to think that I will speak for a further 15 minutes—I will not delay Members for that long—but …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Flexible Ticketing: Rail Transport

"My hon. Friend has identified how technology can solve the problem. It is remarkable how the Oyster system can completely change our approach to tickets and the archaic way of doing things. The situation is similar in my constituency. More and more people are moving there—who can blame them, given …..."
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Written Question
Large Goods Vehicles: Taxation
Thursday 10th March 2016

Asked by: Lord Mackinlay of Richborough (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the HGV road user levy.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Government published an assessment of the effectiveness of the HGV levy in a written statement on 15 June 2015. The levy was introduced, on time, in April 2014. It raised £192.5m in its first year, with £46.5m of that coming from foreign hauliers. Compliance in Great Britain is high at around 95%, and over 3,000 fixed penalties were issued in the first year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Nov 2015
Airports Commission: Final Report

"We have a duty to deliver a modern competitive economy for ourselves and for future generations. National decisions will always be tough, but they need to be taken in the interests of the country.

It is very clear that the south-east needs additional runway capacity. Sir Howard’s foreword to the …..."
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