Following his letter to the UK government minister for Wales Kevin Foster earlier this month, Mr Davies - chair of the committee - continued to press for a viability study for the bypass estimated to cost £1.2 million.
Mr Davies said: "There’s a situation at the moment with people waiting up to an hour to get in and out of Chepstow. It’s absolutely intolerable and this is going to get worse because of the number of houses we need to build both in Chepstow and which are being built in Gloucestershire, hundreds of them. The obvious solution is a bypass, we know that, there’s been a study that’s looked into it and now there needs to be second study for it to progress - WelTAG2 - which is going to cost which is going to cost around £1.2 million pounds."
Secretary of state for Wales Alun Cairns MP said that the increase in economic activity across the border as a result of scrapping the Severn bridge tolls brought with it new challenges which needed to be addressed and agreed that the Chepstow bypass looks like a step in the right direction.
"I’m certainly well aware of it because of the number of times you’ve understandably raised and championed it," he said. "And I also think it’s partly a success of abolishing the tolls that this committee played a big part in and you specifically as the constituency member on the border."
Kevin Foster MP parliamentary under-secretary of state for Wales said that he will be meeting soon with the minister for transport to "push this one forward".
David Davies added: "A lot of people in Chepstow will perceive that Gloucestershire Council are merrily building hundreds of new houses and allowing the people of Chepstow to suffer the consequences of the extra traffic that’s generated and then, can’t even be bothered, quite frankly, to support part funding of a report.
"We’re not talking about asking for them to pay for a bypass just yet, we’re just asking to pay part of the cost of a paper report which in my opinion isn’t asking a lot, given that they themselves have pushed hundreds and hundreds of extra houses into that area. Some people might think the way they’ve carried on is quite disgraceful and I say that even though I believe there’s a Conservative council that’s involved. It really is causing a great deal of angst in the Chepstow area. I don’t want to put it any stronger than that, but I really think we need a solution and we’re not getting one at the moment."
Kevin Foster said: "It’s in both community’s interest and one we’ll strongly be pushing from the office of the secretary of state."