Debates between Grant Shapps and Neil Coyle during the 2019 Parliament

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Debate between Grant Shapps and Neil Coyle
Thursday 3rd December 2020

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Neil Coyle Portrait Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)
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Even when we have all had the covid vaccine, the country will still need an economic shot in the arm, and the Bakerloo line extension delivers just that, providing tens of thousands of new jobs and thousands of new homes, on top of all the amazing transport benefits, which is why it is so strongly supported by the public and by businesses and councils. The Prime Minister has said that we are firmly on track to get construction under way by 2024 and have it up and running by 2030, so can the Transport Secretary say what he is doing to ensure that construction begins on time?

Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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I certainly can. I have just approved the safeguarding of the land to ensure that it can happen.

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Debate between Grant Shapps and Neil Coyle
Wednesday 5th February 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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That is just the start. We will work closely with the aviation sector through reduction schemes, by working with international aviation and by producing fuels that do not emit carbon in the same way that fuels do today. The Future Flight Challenge includes £300 million for greener aviation, to make aviation electric. I was not going to repeat the point, but I will now that I have been challenged: we are working on programmes to produce electric and hybrid planes and to use biofuels and other technologies to cut emissions from fuel. That is extremely important.

Neil Coyle Portrait Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State has not mentioned the tube as a means of decarbonising our transport infrastructure. In 2015, the Prime Minister claimed that the Bakerloo line extension was firmly on track to open by 2030; where are the Government at on that now? Will the Secretary of State meet Members who represent the communities that that extension would benefit?

Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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As the hon. Gentleman will know, that project is led by the Mayor of London and Transport for London, but I meet and speak to them regularly and would be happy to chase up the project on his behalf, because it is in all our interests to see Crossrail and the Victoria line completed. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to point that out.