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Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I, too, thank Mr. Speaker for granting the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr. Hollobone) the Adjournment debate. I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing it, and on providing an opportunity to discuss the adoption of new streets, not only in his constituency but elsewhere. I should also like to put on record the fact that other hon. Members have been present and that the hon. Member for...

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: The hon. Gentleman must have seen my speech, as I am just coming on to that very point. The requirement can be enforced either through planning conditions or through the use of planning obligations—an agreement between a developer and a local authority. Kettering borough council, as the planning authority for the hon. Gentleman's constituency, could have included that in its planning...

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: That is why the good planning departments work closely with developers to ensure that buildings are finished on time. Timelines are established so that buildings can be completed quickly. The hon. Gentleman is presumably alluding to the recession. We know that some developers have had problems and that, for very good reasons, the building of new estates may be delayed. In such circumstances,...

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I am happy for the hon. Gentleman to write to me, and I am happy to discuss the matter with him, but I have not yet been briefed on it.

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I thought Her Majesty's official Opposition were against databases. However, the hon. Gentleman will know that £3 billion is the cost of adopting the roads on the basis of the 40,000 figure I cited earlier. He will also know that those roads are local matters, and that for us to start compiling a database and obtaining the statistics from local authorities would take a huge amount of...

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I refer the hon. Gentleman back to what he said in his speech, relying on the paper from the House of Commons Library. All the evidence suggests the number of unadopted roads is about the same now, 40,000, as it was then. I am not sure how having this scientifically tested would help because the point still remains that the cost of adopting those roads is approximately £3 billion. Is the...

Residential Roads (Adoption) (11 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman and I will agree on whether databases are a good thing and whether taxpayers' money or civil servants' time should be spent on compiling databases for this purpose. I do not think they should be, but he clearly disagrees. There is no doubt that many people who live on private streets consider their liability to pay private street works charges as...

Public Transport (Disabled Access) (10 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: It is a pleasure for me, too, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Williams. It is also my maiden voyage with you in the Chair and I hope that I do as good a job as the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall). I congratulate him on securing this debate on an important matter: access to transport by disabled people. On a personal note, I say to the hon. Gentleman that our previous...

Public Transport (Disabled Access) (10 Nov 2009)

Sadiq Khan: The hon. Gentleman is right. Getting to the bus stop or the platform is often the biggest challenge, and I recognise that there is still some way to go on this. It is not just about making buses and trains accessible. There is no point in having a new, accessible bus if people cannot get to the bus stop or board the bus. The end-to-end journey is what matters, and if there is a weak link the...

Pudsey (Transport) (28 Oct 2009)

Sadiq Khan: I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Mr. Truswell) on securing this Adjournment debate. He began his excellent speech by comparing himself to a parliamentarian Oliver Twist, and although my knowledge of Dickens is not very good, I know that he is different in a number of ways. First, he keeps coming back for more—again and again—in that I think that this is the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Mersey Gateway Bridge (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: The inspector's report following the recent public inquiry is not expected to be received until the middle of December and its recommendations will need to be considered carefully before the Secretary of State can announce the decisions. A further decision on funding will be taken after that.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Mersey Gateway Bridge (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: I acknowledge the role that my hon. Friend has played as an advocate for the Mersey gateway bridge. I have heard him ask questions of the Prime Minister and raise the matter in debate, and I have also heard the representations made by Halton borough council. I commend both him and the council for all the hard work that they have done. My hon. Friend has heard from me the time scales in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: We have asked High Speed 1 to consider the potential development of a high-speed line beyond the west midlands, in particular the potential for the new line to extend to the conurbations of Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, the north-east and Scotland. It is expected that high-speed rail services to Yorkshire would result in a measurable impact on economic benefits. Greengauge 21, for example,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: May I, through you, Mr. Speaker, reassure my hon. Friend that HS2's outlook is national? It is important that we bear that in mind. Some people would draw on the back of an envelope a line from London to Birmingham to Manchester to Leeds, and that would be their high-speed link. We examine the benefits to all the corridors in our country to ensure that all parts of the country get the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: The hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. I hope that his Front Benchers are listening.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point about the vision we have for high-speed rail. One of the things we deliberately asked High Speed 2 to look into was the benefits of extending the high-speed link to Manchester, Yorkshire, the north-east and Scotland. It is important that, when HS2 reports this year, we consider the report and come back with proposals next year. The alternative...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: I did not realise that I had so many allies in the Chamber, but it is good to hear that we have allies who are committed to investment in high-speed rail, which is probably the biggest single infrastructure investment in my generation.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: I welcome the hon. Lady's contribution to infrastructure investment. I wish she was as enthusiastic about Crossrail in London as she claims to be about high-speed rail. As for the timeline, we look forward to receiving the report from High Speed 2 later this year. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, who is a workaholic, will consider the report from HS2 and, I am sure, come back with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: High-speed Rail (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: I am sorry that the hon. Lady has spent so much time arguing with the Mayor of London that she has not read, for example, the evidence given by David Rowlands to the Transport Committee in June, or the copies in the Library of letters sent by Lord Adonis to David Rowlands, and his responses, which make the matter quite clear. My noble Friend writes in particular about "the potential for HS2...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Local Transport Plan (22 Oct 2009) has video

Sadiq Khan: No. Local authorities already have almost complete discretion to invest in transport as they see fit. They are obliged to seek approval only when they are bidding for additional funds from the Department—for example, for major schemes of more than £5 million.