VoteClimate: Transport Infrastructure: Essex - 6th March 2019

Transport Infrastructure: Essex - 6th March 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Transport Infrastructure: Essex.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-06/debates/2EA491CC-DD64-4D23-9AFC-D2BF381C4213/TransportInfrastructureEssex

09:30 Priti Patel (Conservative)

Of course, it is not only individuals who depend on our transport sector, but businesses and everyone else. Essex has a strong advanced manufacturing and engineering sector that employs over 50,000 people in over 4,200 companies. We are host to a range of household names across the constituencies of all right hon. and hon. Members present, including BAE Systems, Teledyne e2v, Fläkt Woods in Colchester, and Crittall in Witham. We have a high-tech cluster; we specialise in life sciences, renewable energies, aerospace, defence, security, biotech, digitech—you name it, we have it going on.

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10:34 Jesse Norman (Conservative)

The hon. Member for York Central rightly drew attention to the importance of combating emissions. We have a very strong air quality strategy and have launched an enormous amount of work not just on emissions but on decarbonisation. We have a lot of work about to come out shortly on future mobility, electric vehicles and the like. It includes not just cars, but the full panoply of electric vehicles that are transforming our streets.

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