Oral Question·Department for Transport
“If he will take steps to close the gap in transport expenditure per capita between London and the North East.”
Tabled: 2 July 2018Answered: 5 July 2018
Asked by
Grahame Morris
Labour — Easington
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Emma Reynolds)
I am a Buckinghamshire Member, Mr Speaker, but there we go. The Government are delivering our manifesto commitments to improve access to nature and deliver three national forests. We recently announced that the second national forest will be in the Oxford-Cambridge corridor. Milton Keynes is the beating economic heart of that corridor, and we will deliver economic opportunities and even better access to nature side by side in my hon. Friend’s great city.