division_name: Transport
motion: <p class="" pid=".777.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".777.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House believes that for the duration of the crisis in transport the country requires a full-time Secretary of State for Transport.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid=".784.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, To leave out from "House" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".784.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"recognises the importance of transport infrastructure to continued growth and prosperity; welcomes the Government's commitment to a sustained improvement in the transport system; acknowledges that it inherited a legacy of decades of under-investment which continues to have severe adverse consequences for transport performance; notes the additional pressures which economic growth since 1997 is putting on the transport networks; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to investment of &#163;180 billion through the Ten Year Transport Plan and to its policies of balanced improvements to all modes of transport consistent with wider environmental objectives; recognises achievements already evident in, for example, improved rail rolling stock, falling numbers of road accidents and increased bus patronage; and believes that the Government has put the appropriate ministerial arrangements in place for further improvement."</p>
  
  <p pid=".817.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put accordingly,</i> That the original words stand part of the Question:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid=".817.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 180, Noes 304.</p>