Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrew Jones and David Davis

Thursday 14th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) (Con)]

The Minister will be aware that he could replace and upgrade every piece of rolling stock in the country for less than half the price of High Speed 2. Why do we not just cancel this white elephant and give the public something that they want?

[Andrew Jones]

I say to my right hon. Friend that we are doing both. We are replacing the rolling stock in our country and delivering HS2, which is what we need to deliver more capacity in our rail market.