I will write to the noble Lord on that, if I may. Perhaps it will serve as an education for all of us. As I said, I have an update on the bats: I feel a bit like breaking news. I have been assured that there is no breed of bat on the line that has never been discovered before. However, there are a number of rare bat colonies near to the line of the route and the mitigation measures that have been created include bat bridges. I expect the next question will be: do I know what a bat bridge looks like?
High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 24 January 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill.
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