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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 29 Oct 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T6. Figures released by the Department show that the Severn bridge is currently generating about £78 million-worth of profit over and above the cost of maintenance of that bridge. Does that not go to prove that as soon as it goes back into public ownership on 1 April 2018, there …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Jul 2015
Severn Bridges (Tolls)

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) on securing the debate. I associate myself with every single comment that she and others made, with the possible exception of the one about whether we should hand control of the bridges over to the Welsh Assembly—I will keep out …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Jul 2015
Severn Bridges (Tolls)

"Can the Minister supply an answer in this debate to the questions about how much extra money the Government have received in VAT and industrial buildings allowance, and the costs of maintenance? If he cannot give those exact figures today, can he commit his Department to providing them before the …..."
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Written Question
Severn River Crossing: Motorcycles
Monday 15th June 2015

Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many journeys over the Severn Crossings were made by motorcycles in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Answered by Andrew Jones

The number of motorcycles crossing westbound on both Severn River Crossings bridges is provided in the table below, for 2012 to 2014.

Year

Number of motorcycles: westbound crossings

2012

129,358

2013

133,367

2014

141,135

Source: Severn River Crossing plc tolling data

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Infrastructure Bill [Lords]

"In addition to all the advantages my hon. Friend has already mentioned, does she accept that we need to have a shale gas industry to go hand-in-hand with our wind industry, because wind-powered generators require gas generators to back them up?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Jan 2013
Rising Cost of Transport

"Will my right hon. Friend also mention the rise in transport costs for users of the Severn bridge and say whether there is any possibility of capping those increases when the bridge returns to public ownership in 2017-18?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 19 May 2011
Severn Crossings Toll

"Everyone seems to be leaving the Chamber, which is sad because very few issues cause more rows in pubs and constituency surgeries in south Wales than the Severn bridge. You might expect me to declare an interest at this point, Mr Davies, but one of the bits of pub trivia …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 19 May 2011
Severn Crossings Toll

"I must admit that that was a surprise to me. It would, of course, have been feasible to do it, but a Conservative Government in the Welsh Assembly—which was, sadly, not to be—would have had to pay back all the money to Severn River Crossing. That would have been a …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 19 May 2011
Severn Crossings Toll

"Once again, the hon. Gentleman has anticipated some of my comments.

Before I turn to 2017, we should have a quick discussion about the impact on the economy. There is, as the hon. Gentleman will recall, mixed evidence about this. There is no hard evidence that the current level of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 19 May 2011
Severn Crossings Toll

"The right hon. Gentleman has far more knowledge of what happened in 1991 than I do. However, if we had asked for a more advantageous and flexible Bill from our point of view, I presume that SRC would have asked for more than £1 billion. I was not party to …..."
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