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Infrastructure Bill [Lords]

Proceeding contribution from Richard Burden (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 8 December 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Infrastructure Bill [Lords].

As I said in answer to the previous question, we are not in the business of saying that we wish to cut back on capital investment. For goodness’ sake, we have been saying for four years that the Government have not been investing enough in

infrastructure. It seemed from the Minister’s opening remarks that he was criticising the previous Government for not having spent enough. That is a bit of a change from what we have heard before—usually we are accused of having spent too much. Labour spent a total of £93.7 billion on our road network between 1997 and 2010. That is because we are interested and we are committed to repairing our creaking infrastructure. That will not change.

Type
Proceeding contribution
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589 c665 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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