Formal minutes
The following Declarations of Interest were made:
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody; Member of the Associated Society
of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Clive Efford and Mrs Louise Ellman,
Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union
Mr Graham Stringer and Mr Ian Lucas,
Members of Amicus
Wednesday 16 March 2005
Members present:
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody, in the Chair
| Mr Clive Efford
Mrs Louise Ellman
| | Mr Ian Lucas
Mr Graham Stringer
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The Committee deliberated.
Draft Report (Road Pricing), proposed by the Chairman,
brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph
by paragraph.
Summary read and agreed to.
Paragraphs 1 to 60 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 61 read.
Motion made, to leave out paragraph 61 and insert the following
new paragraph:
Co-ordination of road pricing policy across a wide area could
overcome the local economic competition that currently acts as
a barrier to individual cities moving ahead with a charge. The
Secretary of State indicated that he wished to pilot a road pricing
scheme on a larger scale than one city, in order for it to be
effective in changing travel behaviour. The indication in the
Local Government Association's evidence was that local authority
boundaries work as a barrier to large-scale charging schemes.
Where road pricing is undertaken on a sub-regional scale, the
involvement of the local authorities effected must be co-ordinated
and ensured; 'pan-city' road pricing schemes must not remove control
from democratically elected local authorities. A road pricing
scheme which covered more than one major city and more than one
local authority area could be promising and we will watch with
interest the Department's involvement in getting such a pilot
established. A monitoring and evaluation process must be agreed
to assess whether the pilots are successful and to inform future
charging schemes.—(Mr Graham Stringer.)
Motion made and Question put, That the paragraph be read a second
time.
The Committee divided.
| Ayes, 1 | Noes, 3
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| Mr Graham Stringer | Clive Efford
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| Mrs Louise Ellman
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| Ian Lucas
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Paragraph 61 agreed to.
Paragraphs 62 to 123 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report be the Seventh Report of the
Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
taken before the Committee be reported to the House.
[Adjourned till Wednesday 23 March at half past Two o'clock.
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