Eric Ollerenshaw
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(11 years, 9 months ago)
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Mr McLoughlin
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that suggestion and will think on it a little more.
Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Con)
When it comes to the impact of High Speed 2 on Lancaster and the rest of the north-west beyond—dare I say—Manchester and Merseyside, if I understood it correctly the Secretary of State was saying that high-speed trains from London to Manchester would enter the west coast main line just above Wigan, stopping at Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and Glasgow, so that we in Lancaster will therefore also get shorter journey times.
Mr McLoughlin
The answer—[Interruption]—I am sorry, I was trying to follow exactly what my hon. Friend was saying and checking the points he was making—is that shorter journey times to Lancaster will certainly be a result and a benefit for his constituents.