Eurotunnel: Structure and Charges

Lord Lea of Crondall Excerpts

Wednesday 7th May 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Kramer]

I can see that this is a wide-ranging question. Perhaps I may just say that, as a Londoner and as a true Brit, I find living in this country to be exceedingly attractive. I am not at all surprised that it is highly attractive to the French, especially those with an entrepreneurial turn of mind.

[Lord Lea of Crondall (Lab)]

Is the Minister aware that the real moral of this story is that strong EU rules are needed to make the single market work in the interests of the customer?

[Baroness Kramer]

I very much agree that a single market can exist only when there is effective regulation. The UK would have said that the prior arrangements had the necessary stamina, but we are very welcoming of the new shape of economic regulation that will have an impact on the Channel Tunnel as we go forward.