Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Lincoln Jopp Excerpts
Thursday 26th March 2026

(1 day, 8 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Simon Lightwood Portrait Simon Lightwood
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It is not acceptable for this Reform-led council to refuse to provide basic information to my hon. Friend’s constituents. As I mentioned earlier, 25% of Reform-led councils have been rated red—the lowest rating. It will not surprise my hon. Friend to hear that Labour councils have come out on top. I hope that her constituents will keep that in mind when they go to the polling stations in a couple of weeks.

Lincoln Jopp Portrait Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne) (Con)
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The scourge of potholes is pretty universal, but will the Minister join me in encouraging all my Spelthorne residents who have a complaint about a pothole to report it via the Surrey county council website? Reporting potholes is the only way to get them sorted.

Simon Lightwood Portrait Simon Lightwood
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I absolutely agree that constituents should report potholes to their local authority. The good news is that by the end of this Parliament we will have almost doubled the amount of funding to allow those councils to get on top of this pothole plague.