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I will take her reply to mean that she has not had any discussions about funding for the Shipley constituency. Saltaire roundabout is one of the most congested places in the whole of West Yorkshire. It is a world heritage site and it does not really help the visitor experience when they get completely snarled up in traffic. Why should an unelected and unaccountable regional transport board be able to frustrate the plans of local residents, which the democratically elected council in Bradford wants to bring about?
I will take her reply to mean that she has not had any discussions about funding for the Shipley constituency. Saltaire roundabout is one of the most congested places in the whole of West Yorkshire. It is a world heritage site and it does not really help the visitor experience when they get completely snarled up in traffic. Why should an unelected and unaccountable regional transport board be able to frustrate the plans of local residents, which the democratically elected council in Bradford wants to bring about?
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Philip Davies
(Conservative)
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Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Grand Committee
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
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29 October 2009
First, there are elected local councillors on the regional transport board. What is important about it is that decisions can be made at a regional level. Local authority leaders and others come together to decide what to do with the overall regional allocation. That is a far better way of doing things than civil servants in Whitehall, hard as they work and brilliant as they are, deciding on how to spend Yorkshire’s money. As I reiterated previously, in July we followed the advice of the regional funding board, which asked us to allocate money to local authorities so that they can pursue the kind of individual schemes that the hon. Gentleman is talking about. Something like £35 million was allocated to West Yorkshire authorities, and that is why the Saltaire roundabout scheme is being developed. That absolutely follows his point.
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Finance; Bradford; Transport; Roundabouts; Shipley
Date
29 October 2009
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YHRGC c11
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House of Commons Grand Committees
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