Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Heaton-Harris and Chris Green

Thursday 4th November 2021 Commons Chamber

[Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con)]

9. What steps he is taking to improve rail services.

[The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Chris Heaton-Harris)]

We are reforming rail guided by the “Great British Railways: Williams-Shapps plan for rail” White Paper. This will improve services for passengers and drive taxpayer value for money at the same time.

[Chris Green]

After many years of waiting, we have seen the electrification of the Manchester to Liverpool and Manchester to Preston railway lines. We are now looking forward to the electrification of the line between Bolton and Wigan. Can my hon. Friend confirm that this is going to go full steam ahead?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Heaton-Harris and Chris Green

Thursday 2nd July 2020 Commons Chamber

[Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con)]

  The Government have devolved a great deal of responsibility to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, who has to deliver on the Greater Manchester spatial framework and a transport infrastructure required to meet the demands of increased house building. The whole project has suffered delay after delay, so vital infrastructure such as the Westhoughton bypass is not being delivered. What can my right hon Friend do to remove the roadblock in the Mayor’s office?

[The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Chris Heaton-Harris)]

We have devolved significant power and funding to metro mayors, including to the metro mayor of Manchester, to ensure that he can deliver the transport schemes needed to unlock housing and growth, so that Greater Manchester’s economy can thrive as the heart of the northern powerhouse. The bypass is one scheme for the Mayor to consider prioritising and thereby, we hope, deliver. We will happily work with him to ensure that conversation continues at pace.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Chris Heaton-Harris and Chris Green

Thursday 28th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Chris Heaton-Harris]

I might have misheard the hon. Gentleman, but may I gently remind him that the Scottish people voted to stay within the United Kingdom?

[Chris Green (Bolton West) (Con)]

15. What discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the effect of the UK leaving the EU on funding for the regeneration of towns.