VoteClimate: Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London Boroughs - 4th November 2020

Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London Boroughs - 4th November 2020

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Covid-19: Emergency Transport and Travel Measures in London Boroughs.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-11-04/debates/5CA1BC02-327D-4ACC-B499-434E3FBFBEE5/Covid-19EmergencyTransportAndTravelMeasuresInLondonBoroughs

19:12 Rupa Huq (Labour)

I completely agree that we have a climate emergency, we have our net zero obligations and we have an obesity crisis, but doing this without a consultation has just got people’s backs up. It sometimes feels that these things have been formulated, not by anyone who cycles or understands local traffic flows, but just in order to satisfy the criteria for a budget where there is money available and time is running out.

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19:33 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Rachel Maclean)

I move on to the subject at hand, about which the hon. Lady addressed a number of questions to me. I am pleased that she is a keen cyclist—we start from a point of agreement there—and I am sure that she welcomes the Government’s record investment in cycling and walking. That is the biggest ever investment to get people out of cars, clean up our dirty air and decarbonise our transport sector.

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