High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill

With this, we will take the following:

That it be a further Instruction to the Select Commi...

The people now petitioning have already petitioned and paid their £20. Will they be able to petit...

Yes, they certainly will. Indeed, this is a “buy one, get one free” offer from this Government an...

Before I move on to the detail of the motions before us, may I welcome the Minister back to his p...

Order. I have to say to the hon. Lady that one quip or joke is fine, but we are discussing motion...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry not to be able to continue to amuse the House.

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I can tell the hon. Lady that it is a small net saving; I am sure that the shadow Chancellor will...

It’s a laugh a minute today. The net saving is of course welcome. Will he also tell us, when he r...

As a London MP who is majorly affected by HS2, I echo what my hon. Friend has just said. I wish t...

My hon. Friend speaks on behalf of his constituents, who will be particularly affected by the pro...

I should like to reassure the hon. Lady. I had lunch with the right hon. Member for Holborn and S...

I thank the Minister for that response, particularly in relation to Euston.

It is to be hop...

The hon. Lady is making an extremely interesting speech. She called for HS2 to be part of an inte...

I thank the—

Order. Not on this motion. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would like to have a conversation wit...

I will take your direction, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Overall, we want the railways to support ...

I welcome the Minister’s opening statement on these motions, but may I issue a word of warning? W...

My right hon. Friend will recall that the Secretary of State wrote to her on 2 May with details o...

I am glad to have the Minister’s reassurance; that is not exactly how I understood it from my col...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way, and she is always generous with her time. Th...

The hon. Gentleman mistakes what I mean. Several Members of this House who serve as Ministers or ...

At the moment, my hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth (Christopher Pincher), for example, is in C...

My hon. Friend makes a very valid point. The hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Strin...

Will my right hon. Friend emphasise that not just constituents who live on the proposed line of r...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. The costs of the project are a matter of concern right across ...

May I point out that there is not only a small saving but considerable improvement for my right h...

I am grateful to the Minister for that. It was good of him to send the letter that he said was se...

They will be available on Wednesday—tomorrow.

If they are available on Wednesday, that raises the question of why they could not have been avai...

The purpose of today’s motion is to facilitate the depositing of the maps. That is why we are doi...

I am grateful for the Minister’s clarification, but it would have been helpful if the map books h...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. Will she confirm that it is a matter of regret tha...

I think that engineers are talking to engineers. With the help of the Department, I have certainl...

May I say how much I agree with the point that my right hon. Friend has made? Is she aware that i...

My hon. Friend has long supported the other route. Before the election, it was the other route th...

The debate this afternoon strikes me as rather strange, as we are being asked to give the existin...

I must make it clear that the House is being asked not to approve the changes, but to allow the C...

I understand that, but if we had the detail, the House might decide that some amendments are so b...

Following the point that the right hon. Gentleman has just made, does a blank cheque come to mind...

Pretty much, yes, although I am opposed to the daft £20 billion cheque in the first place, and ha...

On the right hon. Gentleman’s point about minor design changes, the same term is used in a letter...

The right hon. Lady’s point simply emphasises how the detail is important. With Euston, however, ...

I share my right hon. Friend’s pain about the shifting sands. The letter to which I referred earl...

Order. The hon. Gentleman might consider making his observations in an Adjournment debate. They a...

Although I understand the concerns of people who are directly affected by the propositions that a...

I am increasingly worried about the process. My right hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mrs Spe...

Again, I sympathise with the right hon. Lady, because nowhere has been subjected to the absolutel...

May I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that none of the provisions we are considering relate...

The point that I am trying to make to the Minister—and to anyone else who cares to listen—is that...

With the leave of the House, I shall touch on several points raised during the debate.

I ca...

Why did that change not appear to be included in the list about the additional provision that was...

It might be that just the parishes were listed, not the actual works, but I understand that the d...

But the point—I have clearly failed to make it—is that that area is to the west of the station, b...

Sir David Higgins is considering how we can best capitalise on the tremendous opportunity that Eu...

David Higgins is apparently incapable of distinguishing between the land around the stations. The...

Order. I remind the right hon. Gentleman that he was making an intervention, not a second speech—...

I would be the last person in the world to try to argue that I know better than the right hon. Ge...

On the subject of the motion, I thank the Minister for the clarification about pieces of land in ...

I know my right hon. Friend is aware that negotiations are ongoing with landowners and others to ...

Although my constituency is not affected by the provisions before the House, there is a great dea...

As a regular user of the Tea Room, I am in no doubt as to the strength of feeling up and down the...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I think my right hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge a...

No, I am sure he does not wish to put the record straight. I do not think that was a point of ord...

I think we have digressed from the subject of the debate. Yes, there are concerned people, not le...