Parliamentary search - High-Speed Rail

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

534 c298-320WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Alison McGovern | 534 c301-2WH (Link to this contribution) As a proud Merseysider, I have to correct the hon. Gentleman and tell him that Merseyside still exis...

Speaker | 534 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask hon. Members to keep to the substantive issue of the debate when making interventions.

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Brian H Donohoe | 534 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate, because it is on an issue that ...

Paul Maynard | 534 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. That is precisely why I used the phrase ““high-spe...

Paul Maynard | 534 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) that this should be about p...

Graham Stringer | 534 c304WH (Link to this contribution) There is a fear. There are genuine worries in Stoke, and potentially Coventry and south Wales, that ...

Tristram Hunt | 534 c304WH (Link to this contribution) I represent Stoke-on-Trent, where there are fears that High Speed 2 could reduce connectivity if the...

Graham Stringer | 534 c303-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) on securing this imp...

Paul Maynard | 534 c302-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I spent an hour at lunchtime trying to work out wh...

Paul Maynard | 534 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that informative intervention. I know that there is no shortage of transpo...

John Leech | 534 c300WH (Link to this contribution) As a fellow member of the Transport Committee I, too, was on the visit to which the hon. Gentleman r...

Paul Maynard | 534 c298-300WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Dorries, for what I think is the first time. ...

Rosie Cooper | 534 c301WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman encapsulates the problem that my constituents have. The new town of Skelmersdale ...

Paul Maynard | 534 c300-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He is correct and almost makes my point for me: it...

Stuart Andrew | 534 c309WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a very good case for connectivity across the north. We have always said that...

Alison McGovern | 534 c309-10WH (Link to this contribution) I could not have come up with a better example. Wrexham is a town I know well. Hon. Members may not ...

Speaker | 534 c308WH (Link to this contribution) May I remind hon. Members that if they have requested to speak via the normal channels, but wish to ...

Alison McGovern | 534 c308-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard), and I hope that I w...

Alison McGovern | 534 c310-1WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's intervention brings home why all the things we are discussing matter. When I worked...

Rosie Cooper | 534 c310WH (Link to this contribution) Sorry. Add to that the fact that there is no railway station, transport is poor and people cannot us...

Speaker | 534 c310WH (Link to this contribution) Order. That is a speech, not an intervention.

Rosie Cooper | 534 c310WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talked about connectivity generally and the fact that it takes quite a time to get fr...

Alison McGovern | 534 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. He clarifies exactly my point: we should be talking abo...

Jason McCartney | 534 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North ...

Mark Lazarowicz | 534 c304-5WH (Link to this contribution) Does not the point that was semi-raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tri...

Graham Stringer | 534 c305WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. It makes sense that people can connect to other places if a high-speed line is built. I ...

Brian H Donohoe | 534 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Does that not back up the argument that if this were to be a project that was about to begin, it sho...

David Mowat | 534 c306-7WH (Link to this contribution) I was not expecting to be called. I would have preferred to wait a little before making my speech. I...

David Mowat | 534 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, was struck by the Action Alliance analysis that when we improve connectivity, the stronger c...

Graham Stringer | 534 c305WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Even though I am a member of the Labour party, I am always slightly cau...

Speaker | 534 c306WH (Link to this contribution) I call David Mowat.

Graham Stringer | 534 c305-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is ridiculous, but that does not mean that Action Alliance does not have a point in saying that i...

Lord Walney | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Of course. I welcome the Minister's contribution.

Lord Walney | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. She knows that we took forward high-speed rail and the High Spee...

Alison McGovern | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is slightly odd of the Minister to describe us as having had 13 ye...

Lord Walney | 534 c315-6WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that much progress was made in planning under the Labour Government. It is critic...

Theresa Villiers | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) The Labour Government had 13 years to deliver the northern hub but they did not do any of it. We hav...

Eric Ollerenshaw | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) In the manner of the debate, it might help if northern Members of all political complexions could ke...

Lord Walney | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I am trying to set out the grounds for a consensus. I m...

Theresa Villiers | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman recall that only a few years ago, in 2007, the then Labour Secretary of Stat...

Lord Walney | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) Let us see what the Minister says today about taking forward what are Labour's proposals. I want to ...

Pat Glass | 534 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Before coming into Parliament, I did a lot of travelling in my previous job, in the north-west and i...

Speaker | 534 c312WH (Link to this contribution) The winding-up speeches will begin at exactly 20 to 4, so perhaps the remaining two speakers will di...

Alison McGovern | 534 c311-2WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We should not aim to design bits of railway across the north just for fun, ...

Eric Ollerenshaw | 534 c314-5WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Ms Dorries, for squeezing me in at the end of the debate. It is a pleasure to serve under...

John Leech | 534 c312-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Dorries. I shall be brief to allow others time...

Lord Walney | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Ms Dorries. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I add my congratulations ...

Paul Maynard | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Walney | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) I will of course give way to the hon. Gentleman, but before I do so I will just add that, in castiga...

Paul Maynard | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of doubt, I am fully behind the decision to abolish the regional development agenc...

Lord Walney | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman says so, that is fine. How he will get on with his colleagues after today I do...

Speaker | 534 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Will Members please leave the Chamber quickly and quietly?

Lord Walney | 534 c319WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is being clear—well, specific—about the point ““submitted to the consultation””. Is she...

Theresa Villiers | 534 c318-9WH (Link to this contribution) I agree thoroughly. I will come to that in a moment. The hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Gr...

Paul Maynard | 534 c317WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have to intervene yet again. On Monday, the hon. Gentleman's party announced support f...

Lord Walney | 534 c316-7WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has been in the House over the past couple of weeks for the...

Speaker | 534 c318WH (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Gentleman that the two Front-Bench speakers have a total of 20 minutes, so will he...

Lord Walney | 534 c317-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point and I want to get on to it. I hope that I can now get an...

David Mowat | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Shadow Minister give way?

David Mowat | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Shadow Front-Benchers have been ambivalent about this issue over ...

Lord Walney | 534 c316WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time and then I really need to make some progress because I have only 10 mi...

Lord Walney | 534 c318WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I was in my final minute. I hope that the Minister will make her commitment to the north...

Theresa Villiers | 534 c318WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Ms Dorries. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Fri...

Iain Stewart | 534 c318WH (Link to this contribution) This debate has rightly focused on passenger traffic, but does my right hon. Friend agree that a spi...

Mark Lazarowicz | 534 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I would like to turn the focus slightly away from Lancashire and Merseyside for a second. The hon. G...

Julian Sturdy | 534 c305WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. High-speed rail is important to the north of England, but it ...

David Mowat | 534 c307-8WH (Link to this contribution) There is certainly a case for not necessarily starting all the construction work in London and comin...

Theresa Villiers | 534 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Theresa Villiers | 534 c319-20WH (Link to this contribution) I am saying that all 50,000 responses from the people who took the time to submit them before the co...

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