Severn Bridges (Tolls)

I agree with my hon. Friend wholeheartedly. As I remember, it took a joke on “Gavin & Stacey” and...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate, and on talking about the Welsh economy as a...

The hon. Gentleman is quite right. Although the effects are probably felt most keenly in my const...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate. I agree with her point about the...

My hon. Friend is quite right. People in many communities in my constituency, particularly those ...

In Northern Ireland, we do not have any toll roads or bridges—I thank the Lord for that—but that ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Various sectors, particularly transport but also...

Support for my hon. Friend’s argument is strong and broad and comes not only from the Welsh Gover...

I agree wholeheartedly. There is probably now a case for a broader campaign to make such points, ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does she agree that the policy for the brid...

I thank my hon. Friend for his well-made point. The Welsh Government certainly agree that lowerin...

Will my hon. Friend express a view on the suggestion that control of the bridges should pass to t...

My honest answer is that I do not care who runs the Severn bridges, as long as the tolls come dow...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) on securing the debate. I associ...

I add my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) on raisin...

I could not agree with my hon. Friend more about the importance of a timescale. Business requires...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, which I would have made myself, about certainty for businesses...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ne...

Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the old Severn bridge is entirely on English soil, and th...

I am grateful for that intervention from my constituency neighbour, and I will deal with that sub...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Mem...

Will the hon. Gentleman take the opportunity to reiterate the importance of the tourism sector? T...

I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. He does great work as chair of the all-party group on t...

I too congratulate the hon. Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden) on securing the debate. As a...

Will my hon. Friend explain why the Scottish Government decided to abolish tolls entirely, rather...

The tolls were of varying costs across the piece. There were some very high ones. The Skye bridge...

I add my congratulations to those that have been given to my hon. Friend the Member for Newport E...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Gray. I congratulate the hon. Member ...

Will the corporation tax cut have an impact? Does the Minister anticipate that that will bring fo...

The corporation tax cut should be viewed as part of a broader economic package to drive growth. T...

The Minister will know that, as the tolls go up automatically in 2016 and 2017, by the time the t...

Removing VAT will result in a significant cost reduction. Of course, like all Members, I would li...

The Minister says that the Government have not yet made a decision, and 2018 is not that far away...

Although 2018 is not that far, it is still three years away. Work on what happens next is under w...

As I said in reply to an intervention during my contribution, the Minister’s party in Wales is ca...

One aspect of devolved government, which is what we have now in the UK, is that the same party wi...

I appreciate that we cannot expect to have all the answers today, and that there are difficult de...

I cannot give the hon. Lady a final date, but I can tell her that that work has started and is ta...

I think that the Minister may inadvertently have misunderstood my hon. Friend’s question. She was...

I mentioned earlier that we are already committed by the road investment strategy to work with th...

Can the Minister supply an answer in this debate to the questions about how much extra money the ...

The annual accounts for the Severn river crossings will be published shortly, and I will consider...

I am grateful to the Minister for that response, although I suspect that hon. Members and Friends...

I am happy to make that commitment.

I thank the Minister for that. To reiterate what the hon. Member for Monmouth and I said earlier,...