Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrew Rosindell and Andrew Jones

Thursday 10th January 2019 Commons Chamber

[Andrew Jones]

That was absolute nonsense. Labour electrified 10 miles of existing network in all the 13 years it was in government. There has been more electrification in the north-west alone under this Government than in all those 13 years, so we will take no lessons from the Labour party on this. With regard to the transpennine upgrade, we are spending £2.9 billion. It is the biggest single project in control period 6, as I explained to the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Jeff Smith) only a moment ago. Rather than criticising, Labour Members should be supporting this project, and perhaps asking why they did not do it. We will take no lessons whatsoever from the Labour party, which did nothing at all for our rail network.

[Andrew Rosindell (Romford) (Con)]

12. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the delay to Crossrail on the London economy.