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Written Question
Public Transport: Disability
Friday 8th December 2017

Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the response to his Department’s consultation on the draft transport accessibility action plan.

Answered by Paul Maynard

We plan to publish the Government response in early 2018, following careful analysis of the responses received to the consultation which closed on Wednesday 22 November.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Nov 2017
Rail Update

"I welcome today’s big message that our railways work better when track and train are operated together and the fact that the Secretary of State is now trying to correct the big mistake in the original rail privatisation, when his party separated track and train ownership. May I ask him, …..."
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Written Question
Crossrail 2 Line
Monday 20th November 2017

Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to release the business case which has been put to Transport for London on the future of Crossrail 2.

Answered by Paul Maynard

The Government is currently considering the Crossrail 2 Strategic Outline Business Case submitted by Transport for London to ensure it is a robust scheme, as with all transport scheme proposals. Once this is completed, we will consider plans for any publication.

Written Question
Blue Badge Scheme: Eligibility
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are classed as ineligible for a blue badge disabled parking permit and have been awarded 12 points in the planning and following a journey activity of the personal independence payment.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Department for Transport does not hold these figures. People who are ineligible for a badge will not be asked if they have been awarded 12 points under the planning and following a journey activity of Personal Independence Payment.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"I will try to help the right hon. Lady, because her own Front Benchers are laughing at her. May I take her back to the comments that she made about the Leader of the Opposition? When he was doing my job, he was pressed on what the Labour Government were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"I am grateful to the Opposition for selecting a debate on the cost of living, which is a very important issue. There can be no doubt that many people in our country have been through, and are going through, some tough times, not least because inflation has cut into their …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"I must remind the hon. Gentleman that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of the previous Government left a message to say that there was no more money. That is the legacy this Government are dealing with. We will take fuel poverty seriously. My predecessor commissioned a report to ensure …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. By next April, we will have saved a two-earner family on the basic rate of tax more than £1,000 a year in income tax. That is a policy to help people on low pay...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"The right hon. Lady ought to know that we saw a massive V-curve because of how fuel poverty was measured under the previous Government—fuel poverty came down earlier in their period of office and shot up dramatically as global gas prices increased. She is not living in the real world …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"Let me give the hon. Gentleman one exact policy, for which Labour never legislated: the warm home discount is a way of targeting cuts in people’s bills directly, for the poorest people in our country. We have legislated for that, it is delivering, and we are proud of it...."
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