This is the parliamentary question time for questions to the Secretary of State for Transport.

Members of the Commons may question the Secretary of State for Transport on any issue relating to his department. Each member is limited to one question per week.

This House recognises Carl Miller as the Secretary of State for Transport, and requests that he answers all questions posed to him.

This House recognises Inevitable as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, and as such grants him the right to ask six questions per week.

The government may only be asked to answer one question at a time - no new questions may be submitted until the previous one has been answered. If the government does not answer, action may be taken by the speaker of the commons.

I therefore open this session with the following question:

Will the Secretary of State for Transport please tell us of his department's aims for this session of parliament?

My first aim is to inform people that I am the Minister for Transport. (laughs)

But seriously, the aims of the Ministry for Transport are to streamline the transportation system of Ostentia and spending thereon.

I thank the secretary for his answer and open this session to the house.

Streamline how? Less spending and thus cutting down, investment to make it more efficient?

The Ministry aims to cut unnecessary pork barrel spending and to repair underdeveloped and/or underfunded roads.

Do you have any plans for investment in areas other than roads, and if so what and in what way?

Yes, we plan to invest in Epiphany's failing public transportation system, and in repairing the rail link to Empthrinia (OOC: sp?).

Hmmm...

*spends several minutes very carefuly wording his question*


Although the privatisation-nationalisation debate has involved other policy areas in the past, it has almost always been focused on the issue of public transport. The Prime Minister has stated in the past that his government would only support a constitutional ammendment protecting private property if it did not render nationalisation unconstitutional. Therefore can I ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the government agrees with me that the proposed Private Property Protection Bill (July 2009) would not render nationalised public transport (or any other nationalised industry) unconstitutional and that there is therefore no valid reason why the government should not support the bill?

:D

Is the honourable member even aware of the installation of a brand new metro in the capital not five months ago?...

POINT OF ORDER! :tophat:

Wait your turn!

It was a rhetorical question ;)...

Order! Order! I ask the honourable member for Valaxia - East Riding to refrain from speaking out of turn. :tophat:

TELEGRAM

From: Carl Miller MP, Roosevelt Nat'l Cemetery Annex, Georgetown, UCCR
To: Andrew Winston "Commoncold0" Dunn MP, House of Commons, Epiphany, Ostentia
Subject: Transport Question

The Ministry for Transport does not believe that the PPPB renders nationalized transport, etc. unconstitutional outright. However, this Ministry believes that the wording renders eminent domain unconstitutional and that, therefore, this Government should not support the PPPB.

"Eminent domain (United States of America), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (South Africa and Canada's common law systems) is the inherent power of the state to seize a citizen's private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation"

Therefore clearly allowed by the bill. :blink:

PS: Why is my name Andrew? :blink: :blink: :blink:

The banner, I imagine, copyright Andrew Dunn, from this image...

Lol, way off there Carl, way off. :lol:

(OOC) That's a guy from Wikipedia then, OK.

Maybe you can be Andrew Dunn in-universe.

I made it - but the picture of big ben was published by Andrew Dunn under a creative commons license. Andrew Dunn is (as far as I'm aware) not a member of this forum.

Well he's going down as "Simon Commoncold" in the Who's Who...