High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill Debate

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Mary Robinson

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High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill

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Business of the House (Today)
2nd reading
Monday 20th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Wendy Morton Portrait Wendy Morton
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Obviously, a huge amounts of engagement has gone on, and in deciding on the location, extensive optioneering work has also considered connectivity, engineering and environmental matters as well as cost issues. The Manchester airport station is located as close to the airport as possible, given all of those competing factors.

Mary Robinson Portrait Mary Robinson (Cheadle) (Con)
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I welcome the airport connectivity, which is brilliant not only for our domestic rail travel but for those connections that we need with the airport. Would my hon. Friend agree that it is also crucial because we want to welcome investment into the north? What effect does she think this new airport link will have on that?

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