Mike Penning

A smart motorway is a section of a motorway that uses traffic management methods to increase capacity and reduce congestion in particularly busy areas by using using the hard shoulder as a running lane and using variable speed limits to control the flow of traffic. PIC: James Hardisty.

Why smart motorways are such a failure at detecting breakdowns - YP Letters

New smart motorways roll-out halted amid safety concerns

Rui Vieira/PA Wire.

Promises not kept on smart motorways - Yorkshire Post Letters

The Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has written to Jim Harra, the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary HM Revenue and Customs,

Numerous contractors using disguised remuneration schemes have worked for HMRC, ...

The purpose of the APPG’s new inquiry is to examine how contracting and freelance working should operate, be remunerated and taxed fairly and appropriately.

Loan charge APPG inquiry could protect thousands of contractors - Greg Wright

Sir Ed Davey

Taxpayers feel under pressure to release equity in their home to settle loan cha...

The APPG has called on the Government and HMRC to offer a “genuine and reasonable” opportunity for those who used loan schemes.

Loan charge settlement proposals could save firms on brink of collapse, says MP

The Loan Charge APPG still opposes the "retrospective" nature of the loan charge and believes that all taxpayers should have the right to access the legal process.

MPs call on Chancellor to offer 'reasonable' settlement opportunity over charge

MPs from across the political spectrum have spoken out in opposition to the loan charge.

MPs vow to continue fighting 'injustice' of loan charge

Sir Ed Davey has been a long-standing critic of the loan charge

Stop 'heartless and cruel' weekend calls over the loan charge, MPs tell HMRC

Does Britain have sufficient energy capacity for electric vehicles?

Why electric cars are bunk, expensive and unnecessary in these times

The Loan Charge APPG now has 200 members. Picture: PA

Why the Treasury must listen to the 200 Parliamentarians who still have concerns...

Hull East Labour MP Karl Turner. Photo: JPI Media

Hull MP Karl Turner calls for scrapping of 'death trap' smart motorways

Claire and Jason Mercer

'My husband was killed on a smart motorway in Yorkshire - now I want Highways En...

MP Rishi Sunak has secured brown tourist signs on the A1 for Wensleydale.

Richmond MP secures breakthrough to point tourists to the countryside

Mike Penning

Firemen could head policing units under revamp

The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

Osborne’s ‘shameful’ U-turn on police cuts

Tom Richmond: Don’t allow Parliament to become an inconvenience

November 19: Good reasons why Theresa May’s deputy taking the rap over police cu...

Tom Richmond: Heads should roll over police budget shambles

Lancashire police chief constable Steve Finnigan

Cost of legal action against Government would be “worth paying”, says chief cons...
A police chief constable said today that the cost of potential legal action against the Government over controversial funding reform plans would be “worth paying” because of the amount his force stands to lose.

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‘No choice’ but to put police into office jobs

‘More lives at risk’ as Yorkshire traffic cop numbers fall

Extension of victim surcharge could raise £1.5m

David Cameron and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Maria Miller with the Winter Paralympic Team GB at Downing Street

Paralympian presses PM over compensation

Chris Moncrieff: Cameron too afraid to fire loose cannon Cable

Protesters campaigning against Atos outside a benefits office

Atos seeks exit to benefits contract as relations break down and death threats m...

Terminally ill ‘hit by deplorable delays in benefit payments’

‘If it’s jobs or emissions, I choose jobs’ says MP

Road budgets hit by austerity cuts ‘putting lives at risk’

New hope for port as road plan moves step closer

Roadworks suspended for Easter weekend
Roadworks will be suspended on a number of motorways and A-roads over Easter, the Highways Agency announced.

Road dangers of cannabis spelled out

Tom Richmond: Resort where time stands still... and so does the traffic stuck on...

Call for councils to be given lorry cash for roads

Tom Richmond: Is Boris on board with Tories’ rail policy?

Hundreds of jobs at risk as DVLA offices face axe amid cuts

Government axes all DVLA’s regional offices

Motorists undeterred by bigger phone fines

Helicopter rescue to be civilian only

Coastguard station to stay open 24 hours

RAC warns of growth in traffic jams as number of cars rises

Fewer MoT tests ‘could bring more deaths’

Minister sees start of M-way work

Scaled back improvements on route to coast under discussion

Why we’re getting away from it all a little closer to home

Britain set to grind to a standstill as schools break up

MPs attack ‘flawed’ proposals to close 10 coastguard centres

All at sea over coastguards

Minister indicates change in direction over tourism signs

Upgrade works to cut motorway congestion

Better roads spending ‘could save 6,000 lives’

Paul Chapman: These coastguard cuts will put lives in danger

Video: Details of speed camera fines to be made public

Daylight service only as Humber Coastguard faces downgrading

Coastguard stations face axe in new Government cutbacks

Missioner receives merchant medal

Festive crackdown on drink-drivers

Revealed: The four most dangerous roads in Yorkshire

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