- 30/07/2024
- Posted by: Amanda Hack MP
- Category: News
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The Ivanhoe Line fight goes on
North West Leicestershire MP will keep up pressure on the government
Amanda Hack has responded to the Chancellor’s statement on the new government’s public spending inheritance. The statement identified £22 billion in unfunded spending commitments for the current budget year hidden by the previous government. The overspend prompted an immediate review of funding for rail projects and a further delay in moves to reopen the Ivanhoe Line to passenger traffic.
Speaking in Westminster this afternoon, Amanda said:
“After less than a month in parliament, it’s clear that the Conservatives called an early general election, knowing full well that the cupboard was bare. After 14 years of chaos and waste, the scale of the financial challenge faced by our new government is huge. We have inherited a £22 billion overspend, including nearly £800m of unfunded transport projects. The Ivanhoe Line is one of them.
Unlike the Tories, we don’t make spending commitments we can’t keep. If we can’t afford it, we can’t do it. This will disappoint those campaigning to restore passenger services, but this isn’t the end. This latest development is a setback, but I’m an optimist. I will continue working with all parties to get a green light for the full reopening of the Ivanhoe Line between Burton and Leicester.
I will write to the Treasury to restate the case for the Ivanhoe Line. I will also press the Secretary of State for Transport to review the project. The people of North West Leicestershire can now take comfort from the fact that they are represented by a straight-talking Labour MP working closely with a Labour government that will deliver economic stability as a precursor to economic growth and investment in Britain’s neglected transport infrastructure.”
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From mid-April, local authorities will begin receiving their share of the government’s record £1.6 billion highway maintenance funding, which includes an additional £500 million, enough to fill 7 million potholes annually!
For the first time, Leicestershire County Council must publish its spending, the number of potholes filled, the percentage of our roads in what condition, and how it is minimising street works disruption.
Also today, the Transport Secretary has announced £4.8 billion in funding for 2025/26 for National Highways to implement essential road projects and upkeep motorways and key A-roads.
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Christ can anyone ever be happy? Brilliant news for the funding. Please make sure its spent well and thought is taken on if a pot hole needs filling or the replacement of a road. Make the 1.6 mean something and not need doing again!
If the MPs had a pay cut and paid for their own expenses instead of targeting the disabled and the working people then you might have enough money to pay for the pot holes, and probably more defence
I could cope with the pot holes if the money was better spent on knife crime and the boats , if you stopped the boats and deported the illegal immigrants then you could save on the millions your spending on hotels. It is that SIMPLE.
Our local health teams are working incredibly hard to ease the waiting lists and ensure everyone gets the care they deserve. I'm pleased that they have fallen again for the fifth month in a row and are down by nearly 200,000 since we were elected.
While there is still work to do, this is real progress and a step in the right direction.
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Please can you tell us what day and hour of the week this generally is?
My surgery has just been cancelled again, any one can pluck numbers out of the air.
I'm still waiting & have another 6 months. My son is still on a 3-4 year ADHD diagnosis waiting list...this should have been done 20 years ago 🤬
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