I shall write to the Minister about this; but the bottom line is that when I asked senior officers about the criterion on transport access, I asked them if they had spoken to the transport authorities for the areas affected, and they told me they had not. It is an important point. If an assessment relating to the transport authorities was not done—if the officers did a desktop assessment—that is not proper consideration of the criterion.
HMRC Closures
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Dowd
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 November 2017.
It occurred during Backbench debate on HMRC Closures.
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