Andy Slaughter
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(12 years, 2 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight this. We have 3,000 regulations in our sights that we believe can be radically scaled down or reduced, and we have made good progress already. We also believe that there is more we can do to exempt particularly small firms from regulation, and the new Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will be pressing ahead, with the full support of the Secretary of State, on this very important agenda.
Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
Q12. Four years ago, the Prime Minister gave his support to High Speed 2 as providing an alternative to short-haul flights and therefore to a third runway at Heathrow. As he is now dithering over Heathrow, is he also dithering over HS2?
The Prime Minister
No, I fully support HS2 and think that it is an investment that needs to go ahead for the good of our country.