Chris Ruane
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(12 years, 10 months ago)
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Justine Greening
We are very keen to do that. In fact, my hon. Friend might be aware that we have started the low-carbon truck demonstration trial, which now involves £10 million of funding for investigating how we can encourage haulage companies to operate in a lower carbon way. He mentioned the fuel duty impact. Actually, hauliers will be about £4,900 better off on average. The Labour party is interested in carping, but the reality is that we are delivering for people on the ground in a way that it never did.
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd) (Lab)
The big society pervades every Government Department. What is the Secretary of State’s definition of the big society?