Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Mark Logan Excerpts
Thursday 17th September 2020

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Logan Portrait Mark Logan (Bolton North East) (Con)
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What steps his Department is taking to connect more towns to the railway network.

Andrew Stephenson Portrait The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Andrew Stephenson)
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The Government have pledged £500 million to start reopening lines and stations to reconnect smaller communities that no longer have a station.

Mark Logan Portrait Mark Logan
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Is it not about time that Londoners had a direct train line into Bolton?

Andrew Stephenson Portrait Andrew Stephenson
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Improving services to the north-west of England, including Bolton, while balancing the capacity and performance impacts on passengers, remains under constant review.