What's on parliament's transport agenda? An interview with the transport committee chair, Iain Stewart MP

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

What's on parliament's transport agenda this year? As a cross party body, the transport select committee plays an important role in scrutinising the government's transport policy. Following the publication of Chris Skidmore MP's Net zero review, transport decarbonisation will be a key priority for the committee. But how does the committee work to hold the government to account? In this episode Alice Watson sits down with Iain Stewart MP, newly elected chair of the transport committee, to understand his day to day responsibilities, how issues like transport decarbonisation are picked up and considered by the committee, and how the public can get involved with shaping the future of the committee's work.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.
0:07.0	We are the charity and think tank that's all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.
0:13.0	I'm Alice Watson, a political advisor at Green Alliance.
0:17.0	On this episode, I'm joined by Ian Stewart, MP for Milton Keynes South and the new chair of the Transport Select Committee.
0:24.6	We discuss what the day-to-day life of the Select Committee chair entails,
0:28.9	how issues like transport decarvanisation are picked up and considered by the committee,
0:34.3	and how you can get involved in shaping their future work.
0:43.6	Welcome, Ian.
0:44.6	Thank you very much.
0:50.9	So to start us off, it might be interesting to hear a bit of a background as to what the role of a select committee is.
0:56.9	Well, yes, select committees are quite a long-standing institution in Parliament and they're there to help Parliament scrutinise and hold accountable each government department so there's broadly a
1:03.0	select committee for each government department so the Transport Select Committee obviously
1:08.0	scrutinises the work of the Department for Transport but also all the agencies that the department's responsible for.
1:15.6	So network rail, civil aviation authority, national highways and all those sort of bodies.
1:21.6	You know, it's a cross-party committee. There's 11 members, and the membership broadly reflects the party's strength in the House
1:28.8	and we hold a series of inquiries into both current issues where there might be a problem
1:35.4	or some issue or controversy that needs to be scrutinised but also can do more general inquiries
1:41.8	into the policy areas and look ahead at what might be coming.
1:46.0	So it's an important part of the parliamentary system.
1:49.4	Congratulations on becoming chair of the committee in November.
1:52.8	I'm just interested to know a bit more about why you were interested in running for the role
1:56.8	in the first place.
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