VoteClimate: Department for Transport - 27th February 2018

Department for Transport - 27th February 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Department for Transport.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-02-27/debates/EE322B12-2A10-4A9B-B19C-6E9B9A734118/DepartmentForTransport

17:36 Andy Slaughter (Labour)

We have to start taking sensible decisions. That is what the Mayor of London is doing. He has frozen tube fares, which were going up too quickly, for four years. He has introduced the hopper fare, which means that people changing from one bus to another do not have to pay extra. That has benefited 140 million journeys so far. He has introduced the night tube, which the previous Mayor failed to. He has reduced strike days by 65%, and he has, as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow West indicated, done a lot for not just walking and cycling but increasing zero-emissions vehicles and, indeed, the whole green agenda in London. Last year, he also reduced operating costs for Transport for London by £150 million in a single year.

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