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Operation Stack inquiry

Inquiry

The Government is right to seek a solution to the level of disruption caused by Operation Stack but the Transport Committee says more should be done to demonstrate that proposal for a lorry park will deliver, in its Operation Stack report.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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1st Report - Operation Stack
Inquiry Operation Stack inquiry
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3rd Special Report - Operation Stack: Government response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2016–17
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HC 602
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3rd Special Report - Operation Stack: Government response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2016–17
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Correspondence

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Correspondence between Louise Ellman and Patrick McLoughlin regarding operation stack dated 22 October and 25 November 2015
Inquiry Operation Stack inquiry
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Oral evidence transcripts

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21 March 2016
Inquiry Operation Stack inquiry
Witnesses Dr Hilary Newport, Director, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Kent Branch, Matthew Webb, Chair, Stanford Parish Council, and John Keefe, Director of Public Affairs, Eurotunnel; Matthew Balfour, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, Kent County Council, David Monk, Leader, Shepway District Council, and Natalie Chapman, Head of Policy for South East England, Freight Transport Association (at 4.50pm).
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11 April 2016
Inquiry Operation Stack inquiry
Witnesses Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, and Jon Griffiths, Deputy Director, Road Investment Strategy Division, Department for Transport, and Jim O'Sullivan, Chief Executive, Highways England.
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14 October 2015
Inquiry Operation Stack inquiry
Witnesses Natalie Chapman, Head of Policy, Freight Transport Association, Tim Waggott, Chief Executive Officer, Port of Dover, and Peter Cullum, Head of International Affairs, Road Haulage Association; Paul Carter, Leader, Kent County Council, Assistant Chief Constable Jo Shiner, Kent Police, and David Brewer, Network Delivery and Development Director, Highways England (at 9.50am); Paul Watkins, Leader, Dover District Council, and Jennifer Hollingsbee, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Communities, Shepway District Council (at 10.35am).
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Written evidence

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Department for Transport (OPP0063)
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SOS Kent (OPP0062)
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Mrs Margaret Cooper (OPP0061)
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