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High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill

And I have no idea how the Minister would extend it to Northern Ireland, but Northern Ireland does not benefit from the Barnett consequentials of this spend, either. Because there is a construction interest, can he give an assurance that when it comes to procurement, there will be no repetition of the mistakes that were made in the past whereby UK-based companies did not benefit from some of the high-spend capital projects, and there will be opportunities for construction firms from Northern Ireland?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
565 c338 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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