Does my hon. Friend agree that the cost benefit has been pushed to one side by Ministers today? Now claims are being made about extra capacity, but has it not been true of this project that at one moment it is about capacity, at the next moment it is about speed and at the next it is about restoring a better north-south balance? The objectives are always used to fit whatever the argument demands, and they seem to move around.
High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Cheryl Gillan
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 June 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill.
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