Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Spellar and Paul Maynard

Thursday 15th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Paul Maynard]

Yes.

[Mr John Spellar (Warley) (Lab)]

As we are seeing a bonfire of the vanity projects associated with the former Chancellor and Prime Minister, would it not be sensible not to be seduced by “grands projets” and to add to that list, heeding the sage advice of Rod Eddington in his 2006 study, binning HS2 and focusing on local capacity to benefit, much sooner, passengers and regions?