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Dartford River Crossing Tolls

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 17 December 2008, in the House of Commons, led by James Brokenshire. The answering member was Paul Clark.
Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the Dartford river crossing tolls.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
485 c124-32WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
James Brokenshire | 485 c127-8WH (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already, and I would like to make some progress. We have hea...
Paul Clark | 485 c128-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire) on securing this debate. As all h...

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Paul Clark | 485 c129WH (Link to this contribution) Let me just say this before I give way: I noted that several Members said that the tolls are creatin...
James Brokenshire | 485 c127WH (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I have been stuck in the traffic there. Creative ways around that could be thou...
John Austin | 485 c127WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Baron | 485 c129WH (Link to this contribution) I wish to mention two issues briefly. What about the promise that the tolls would be abolished once ...
Paul Clark | 485 c129-30WH (Link to this contribution) I will come to the issue of the charges that were put in place as of 15 November—four weeks ago. On...
Bob Spink | 485 c126WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being most generous in giving way. In fact, the removal of the tolls when the ...
James Brokenshire | 485 c126-7WH (Link to this contribution) We will need to hear from the Minister on that point, but certainly the anecdotal evidence is that c...
David Evennett | 485 c125-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be well aware that I have campaigned for quite some time to get the Government t...
James Brokenshire | 485 c126WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points out about the need for basic fairness, in which I believe equally. When consid...
James Brokenshire | 485 c125WH (Link to this contribution) I do not speak on behalf of my party on transport issues, so unfortunately I cannot give the hon. Ge...
James Brokenshire | 485 c125WH (Link to this contribution) In a letter to me of 22 May 2008, the then Minister of State at the Department for Transport, the ri...
James Brokenshire | 485 c125WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point about the use of the £1.75 million that was previously availa...
Howard Stoate | 485 c125WH (Link to this contribution) My constituency is Dartford, as the hon. Gentleman knows, but I am not at all in favour of the incre...
James Brokenshire | 485 c124WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. That problem is shared by my constituents in the London borou...
John Austin | 485 c124-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that many of my constituents live much closer to the Dartford crossing ...
Adam Holloway | 485 c127WH (Link to this contribution) The tax money will have come from somewhere if the toll is taken away. Obviously I would like that t...
James Brokenshire | 485 c124WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss the new charging arrangements at the Dartford river cr...
John Baron | 485 c124WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does he understand the frustration of my const...
James Brokenshire | 485 c124WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes some relevant points on which I shall expand in my comments. His point about pr...
Michael Fallon | 485 c124WH (Link to this contribution) Was not it a principle of the original tolling charge that everyone paid the same? It is outrageous ...
Paul Clark | 485 c130WH (Link to this contribution) One thing I can certainly agree with is that my hon. Friends the Members for Thurrock (Andrew Mackin...
Andrew Mackinlay | 485 c130WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will acknowledge to the Chamber that, under European directives, riparian c...
David Evennett | 485 c132WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. Did the Minister—
Paul Clark | 485 c132WH (Link to this contribution) No, I have been very generous in giving way. Let me deal with one further point relating to the fut...
Bob Spink | 485 c130WH (Link to this contribution) If there are to be road tolls, let us introduce them honestly across the whole country and let every...
John Austin | 485 c131WH (Link to this contribution) When the Transport Bill was going through Parliament, the hon. Member for Thurrock and I were assure...
Paul Clark | 485 c130-1WH (Link to this contribution) With due respect, the hon. Gentleman and, unfortunately, others seem to assume that the road is used...
Bob Spink | 485 c130WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister may recall that I raised the matter in a speech in this House about seven years ago, an...
Paul Clark | 485 c130WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more but I want to be able to put answers to the questions on the record.
Subjects
Bridges
Concessions
Fees and charges
Exemptions
Roads
Tolls
Rivers
Dartford River Crossing
Dartford-Thurrock crossing
Queen Elizabeth II bridge
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