Speeches by Glover.

“I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. I recognise that a lot of work has gone into the proposals by a lot of people, but many of the details add to an existing impression of chaos. We are finally getting sight of the detail just 9.5 months before many affected areas have elections. Councils…”

“I apologise in advance for a lack of theatre or football analogies, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State’s announcement on Tuesday went into some detail on the arrangements for the UK and French borders, but it was somewhat lighter on the detail of the outcome of her discussions with the European Commission on how to ach…”

“The Civil Aviation Authority has reported that in 2024-25, 81% of passenger complaints that were initially rejected by airlines were upheld when independently reviewed, leading to £11 million of delayed compensation payments. Does the Minister support the idea of an air passengers’ charter, backed by independent regula…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Desmond. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Wells and Mendip Hills (Tessa Munt) for securing a debate on this important topic very much in the spirit of end-of-term relaxation. I want to start with some of the positives of the new draft NPPF. My district councils l…”

“Adrian, the written evidence from 20’s Plenty for Us argued that the strategy is “informed” by safe system principles but not truly aligned with those principles. Can you tell us what you mean by that?”

“The insurance thing is the real sell, actually. It has not been made enough of.”

“That is a wonderful note on which to move on to the next question, Chair.”

“You have all been very clear on the advantages you see in 20 mph speed limits and the benefits that they bring. Given that very clear evidence, and that most of the road safety and road design experts are of a similar view, why is there such a culture war? Why is there this resistance?”

“As someone who goes across it every day, the traffic light programming at Hyde Park Corner definitely does not seem to support the vast numbers of pedestrians and cyclists who go across. The wait times are unbelievable. I want to make sure I understood what you said in the previous discussion, Rob, about how hard it wo…”

“I completely agree with that. Of course, we should have policy that should be trying to do the right thing, but there is this tension. I am speaking in general, not just on this. There is that tension of people in democratic politics about how you strike the right balance between doing the right thing and then also not…”

“Any other thoughts?”

“You talked about your views on the strategy’s level of ambition for reducing killed or severely injured rates. One thing that is not talked about much in the strategy is Vision Zero. Do you feel that adopting Vision Zero at national level is realistic, and should have been considered in the strategy?”

“We are going to be exploring some of that a bit later. Adrian, do you have any thoughts on Vision Zero?”

“I have one more question on this, and I would ideally like a couple of short sentence answers from each of you so that we can move on. A lot of the anti-20 mph rhetoric that one sees is that 20 mph limits increase journey times, increase congestion and have a wider economic cost. Is that supported by evidence?”

“To what extent is fear of traffic among pedestrians, cyclists and other more vulnerable road users influenced by high speeds in cars? What does the evidence say on that?”

“Do you feel we are getting that clear policy determination from the national level?”

“I am going to test the Chair’s patience. For all that Transport for London is quite eager to boast about what it has achieved on this, I gently suggest that compared with comparable Dutch cities there is a long way to go.”

“To come back to the discussion around the previous question, tell me whether I have misunderstood. Given that that is one of the main barriers, the logic would therefore be that you either have to significantly reduce speeds on roads consistently or you have to provide dedicated infrastructure.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Christopher, and I thank the hon. Member for Waveney Valley (Adrian Ramsay) for securing a debate on this very important topic. His wide-ranging speech highlighted the worsening climate outlook that we face; the impacts on physical health, mental health and sleep of t…”

“The hon. Lady is making a very compelling speech about the importance of thinking on a whole-life basis about the carbon in buildings. Does she agree that we should think about the whole-life carbon impact of new buildings, and does her argument support the view that we have an opportunity to design buildings properly,…”