High Speed 2

Graham Stringer Excerpts
Monday 18th September 2023

(7 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Richard Holden Portrait Mr Holden
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I thank my hon. Friend and other colleagues for the work that they did on the Select Committee. I will, of course, take that message back to Treasury colleagues.

Graham Stringer Portrait Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton) (Lab)
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Will the Minister give an unambiguous answer to this question: is this Government still committed to building HS2 to Manchester from Euston? People in the north need to know whether they are being abandoned, because it looks like that to me from press reports, which have not been made up by journalists. Is it not the case that the Minister is fronting a Government who will not dare tell the electorate that they are abandoning the north?