- 09/08/2024
- Posted by: Amanda Hack MP
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Keeping the Midlands moving
North West Leicestershire MP reacts to new road proposals
Amanda Hack MP has welcomed a new report, which identifies priority road projects for investment across the English Midlands.
Amanda Hack said:
“Improvement to the region’s transport infrastructure is welcomed, but caution is needed. Understandably, the report is heavily influenced by the previous government’s ill-fated ‘Levelling Up’ agenda. I don’t want us to fall into the same trap. Nonetheless, the report provides a useful insight into Midlands Connect’s current thinking. I am fully committed to working with them to secure the delivery of transport schemes that will support the new Labour government’s growth agenda – whilst at the same time recognising the needs and concerns of local communities.
Roads are important but must be seen as part of the bigger transport picture in the coming decades. Integration with other transport modes, particularly rail. Also, ensuring connectivity with local communities that reduces car use is important. I am keen to learn more about how the schemes that will directly impact people living in North West Leicestershire score on the sustainable development front, especially carbon emissions and our region’s overall quality of life.”
The report, Keeping the Midlands Moving, was published this week by Midlands Connect, a publicly funded ‘sub-national’ body established in 2016 to formulate a transport strategy for the Midlands. It identifies 17 road projects across the region, including four that are now behind schedule and unlikely to be delivered within the previous government’s Road Improvement Scheme Phase Two (RIS2); a further 13 schemes are earmarked for delivery in the next phase of the scheme (RIS3). Only one project, the proposed improvement to Junction 24 on the M1 Motorway at Kegworth, lies within the North West Leicestershire Parliamentary Constituency. However, there is also a brief reference to the long-awaited upgrade to the A511 trunk road between Ashby and Coalville. Taken as a whole, the schemes described in the report could significantly impact the lives of people living and working across the Midlands Region.
Ms Hack will meet with Midlands Connect and other transport stakeholders shortly.
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Today, 80 years since Auschwitz was liberated, we remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and all victims of the Nazis, as well as the victims of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
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It's so important that we remember this so that we learn from history. I do hope we learn especially in today's fractious protectionist world. Bless all the victims of this monstrous heinous crime against innocent victims.
Thanks to my grandad and his generation who served and he fought from 1939 with the BEF, Dunkirk, Raiding from home front, then Italy invasion, The Med. supplying partisans, D-Day and finally in 1946 in the Middle East. Fighting the tyranny in Europe; whilst my nan made planes in Birmingham and casings in Coventry as well as on the Land Army in Cambridgeshire or the buses in Dorset. This is what put a stop to the tyrannical Germans and their Nazi ideology. Being strong and true is the best defence.
and our current government supporting a current genocide, played out on our tv daily.
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to my Solving the SEND crisis roundtable discussion today, including teachers, parents and SENCOs. We managed to discuss so many different areas and I will be submitting these as part of the call for evidence from the Education Select Committee.
If you couldn’t make it but still want to make your voice heard, you can read the themes for the inquiry at the link below and submit your own evidence before the 6th February: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3517
A big thank you to SMB College Group for hosting us at the Stephenson Campus in Coalville.
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Such an important issue. Thanks for taking it up.
Thank you for having me along Amanda Hack MP. Such an amazing group of individuals and thought provoking discussion.
Thank you for working round the clock for a better North West Leicestershire
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