Ruth Cadbury

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Furniss. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North East (Fabian Hamilton) for securing this debate. For 17 years, he has been lim

I absolutely believe that it will exacerbate the issue, because the lower Thames crossing will significantly increase vehicle throughput, particularly of trucks and lorries, on what is already a busy

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope), given his deep experience and interesting perspective on bringing in tolls for all our motorways. That may be what

I appreciate the hon. Member’s response, but as this Bill makes clear, the funding through the RAB model of the lower Thames crossing and other schemes is not only for construction, but for ongoing ma

It is been interesting to listen to the former Minister, who has had a distinguished career. I cannot speak about the former funding of the Dartford crossing, but does he not recognise that under this

Such schemes are hardly new: in London, we have had the congestion charge for many years now— [ Interruption. ] We have it elsewhere, too; drivers in and around our major cities are used to a charge t