Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Dan Jarvis Excerpts
Wednesday 10th March 2021

(3 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes. I thank my hon. Friend; I know that he supported the bid for the reinstatement of the Stoke to Leek line. That is currently being assessed by the Department for Transport as one of the Beeching reversals, which are so popular around the country and so right, and he can expect an outcome in the summer.

Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab) [V]
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If the Prime Minister is serious about levelling up the country, does he honestly think that favouring the Chancellor’s Richmondshire constituency over Barnsley for financial support is the best way to do it?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are devoted to levelling up across the entire country, and that goes for Barnsley as well as everywhere else.