Speeches by Cadbury.

“Having spent 25 years as an elected councillor, I know that providing data is not a burden if it helps you benchmark and is going to help you get resources from various sources for your local authority area. You said that there is a live conversation with MHCLG about this data. Have you asked it to include this data so…”

“I just want to pick up something that I wanted to ask around a subset of the guidance on asset management that you may be providing. How is your approach to local road maintenance supporting your Department’s other priorities? I am thinking particularly of walking and cycling.”

“That is useful.”

“The Transport Committee in the last Parliament did an inquiry on autonomous vehicles.”

“Evaluating funding measures different techniques and styles, but we all agreed earlier in this session that longer-term funding streams are generally better value for money. Is there a case for finding ways of establishing long-term funding? In a lot of infrastructure—and I know about transport—there is a strong case f…”

“The Transport Secretary’s statement is hugely welcome. Bringing privately owned train operating companies into public ownership as well as setting up GBR will inevitably add to her Department’s workload, so what preparations is she making to manage that additional workload?”

“Last month, 18 flights between Belfast City and Heathrow were cancelled, and I can only imagine how difficult that must be for Members from Northern Ireland and their constituents. The previous Transport Committee, in its aviation reform inquiry, recommended that the Government revise the public service obligation rout…”

“As Chair of the Transport Committee, I will focus my remarks on transport, a sector that is essential to delivering the Labour Government’s missions on growth and decarbonisation and to improving our health. On those, the Conservatives dodged the tough decisions and kicked the can down the potholed road. As the Chancel…”

“Under international law, Palestinian refugees retain their right to return. By seeking to dismantle UNRWA, Israel could, as part of a wider plan, be pressurising Palestinian refugees to relinquish that right to return. Despite our Foreign Secretary and Governments of many other countries raising concerns and pleading w…”

“3. What steps her Department is taking to improve neighbourhood policing.”

“My constituents rightly want to see more neighbourhood policing teams on their streets. I welcome the Government’s commitment to bringing in 10,000 more neighbourhood police officers, but can the Secretary of State assure me that west London will get the neighbourhood policing teams we need?”

“I draw attention to my membership of the GMB. I support this landmark employment Bill, the biggest expansion of workers’ rights for a generation. Today we see the difference that a Labour Government can make for people up and down the country. Although I support all aspects of the Bill, I will focus specifically on the…”

“The Government’s bus reforms are welcome, but rural areas such as Cornwall have perhaps the poorest bus services in England, as well as less well developed partnerships than, say, urban Greater Manchester. What plans do the Government have to ensure that rural areas in England can benefit from better bus services, as c…”

“As the Prime Minister so painfully said, the Grenfell fire destroyed lives and ripped families apart, but constituents of mine are suffering, too. They are afraid to go to sleep at night, because they live in buildings that were built more recently than Grenfell, with fire safety risks. The building standards that info…”

“T9. The letter from the Cabinet Secretary to the former Chancellor that emerged this morning clearly stated that the failure by the last Government to hold a spending review following the unexpected national and global pressures significantly contributed to the fiscal challenge that the Labour Government inherited. Wha…”

“The World Health Organisation has warned that the lack of sanitation and clean water caused by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza poses a real risk of polio spreading undetected among its people. Will the UK Government consider supporting a mass vaccination programme in Gaza?”

“22. What steps he is taking to help improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.”

“I congratulate the Minister on her appointment; it is a great pleasure to see her at the Dispatch Box. She talked about bringing in the road safety strategy—I am not sure whether that is the same as the long-awaited strategic framework for road safety that I was asking about previously. National Highways had a commitme…”

“On that point, will the shadow Secretary of State give way?”

“I am old enough to remember British Rail. On quite a lot of measures, British Rail was improving before it was privatised. While the hon. Lady wants to make an ideological attack on a state-owned railway, British Rail was 40% more efficient than eight comparable rail systems in Europe used as benchmarks in 1989. Does t…”