I strongly agree with the hon. Lady about freight. Does she accept that the channel tunnel is one of the costs that must be borne by Eurostar services, and that the tunnel will be uneconomic unless and until we put much more traffic through it? As there are not enough passengers, that traffic will have to be freight, so does she agree that we need a delivery system for freight on our side of the channel to make full use of the tunnel to make it an economic proposition, which will benefit Eurostar indirectly, too?
Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Kelvin Hopkins
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 20 November 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill.
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