Topical Questions

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 22 April 2008.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of John Penrose John Penrose Conservative, Weston-Super-Mare 2:30, 22 April 2008

Is the Secretary of State aware that the Highways Agency is refusing to increase the capacity of junction 21 of the M5 in my constituency until more local jobs have been created to reduce the number of people who commute into Bristol each day? The regional spatial strategy, which would have achieved exactly that, has just been amended by Government-appointed planners to allow even more houses to be built without the necessary local jobs. The result is deadlock and misery for my constituents, stuck in the resulting appalling jams. Will she therefore liaise urgently with her colleagues at the Department for Communities and Local Government to ensure that the Government's left hand knows what their right hand is doing?

Annotations

bryan mcgrath
Posted on 23 Apr 2008 11:32 am (Report this annotation)

Well, well Mr. Penrose reality starts to dawn.
You won the seat, at least in part, by promising to tackle the problems with morning rush to junction 21.
What was your "hook line" in the 2005 election?
That is it "Weston deserves better"

So a 30 second brush off by Ruth Kelly is the best you can do. You're not exactly Dragon's Den material are you.