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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
P&O Ferries

"I welcome the Secretary of State’s robust statement in response to P&O’s appalling behaviour. I also welcome the work that he and his Department are doing with the Kent Resilience Forum to ensure that we keep motorway traffic moving through the county. Does he agree that it is important that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What steps the Government are taking to encourage competition in the rail industry. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"As international rail travel opens up post the covid pandemic, Eurostar still has an effective monopoly on services through Eurotunnel. What can the Government do to encourage other companies, in particular rail companies from Germany and Spain, that have expressed an interest in running alternative services through the tunnel?..."
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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 3rd September 2020

Asked by: Damian Collins (Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 11 June 2019, 19 October 2019 and 25 June 2020 from the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe, regarding his constituent Mrs Old and the formerly proposed lorry park at Stanford West; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris

There have been multiple replies sent regarding Mrs Old in the past twelve months. The Department will contact the Hon Member’s office and provide copies of any replies that you have not received. The Department has no record of any correspondence being received on 25th June; if a copy can be provided, a response will be sent as soon as possible.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Jan 2019
Seaborne Freight

"If there are delays in processing freight through the channel tunnel in my constituency or the port of Dover, is the Secretary of State convinced that his contingency planning means that we will not see a return to Operation Stack and that the M20 motorway will remain open in both …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Operation Stack/Lorry Parking in Kent

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered Operation Stack and lorry parking in Kent.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Chope. I am pleased to be joined by my county colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant). It …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Operation Stack/Lorry Parking in Kent

"I completely concur with my hon. Friend’s remarks.

After the crisis in 2015, the Government agreed that a different solution to Operation Stack was needed to allow the motorway network to remain open, even when there are delays. It was agreed that an off-road solution was the only workable, long-term …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Operation Stack/Lorry Parking in Kent

"The Department should also look at the story of the lorry park and the fact that we are where we are two years on, with a year lost because of the judicial review. I am sure that there are lessons to be learned from the way in which Highways England …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Operation Stack/Lorry Parking in Kent

"Does the Minister recognise that there are two issues? There is a need for incremental growth in lorry parking, particularly on the M2/A2 northern routes through Kent. But that should not be instead of the Operation Stack lorry park needed on the M20 route to cope with phases 1 and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Operation Stack/Lorry Parking in Kent

"I appreciate that the Minister is running out of time, but will he address the specific questions that I asked about settling the judicial review proceeding with compensation for residents in Stanford and publishing the revised lorry park plans?..."
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