Regional breakdown of transport spending evidence session

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• Inquiry page: Regional breakdown of transport spending

This follows up the Committee's Fifteenth Report of 2010-12, Counting the cost: financial scrutiny of the Department for Transport 2011-12, particularly paragraphs 12 to 14.

• The House of Commons Scrutiny Unit prepared a paper for the Committee on the regional breakdown of transport spending (PDF)

There has also been correspondence with the Government about the issue:

• Letter from Louise Ellman MP to Justine Greening MP dated 11 July 2012 (PDF)
• Letter from Patrick McLoughlin MP to Louise Ellman MP dated 20 September 2012 (PDF)

For details of the room the oral evidence session will take place in please check the Committee’s website a few days before the session.

Witnesses

Monday 26 November 2012

At 4.05pm

• Jonathan Bray, Support Unit Director, pteg
• Ed Cox, Director, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) North
• Professor Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics

The Committee is likely to follow up the issues raised with the Secretary of State when he gives oral evidence on the transport aspects of the autumn economic statement, early next year.