High Speed 2

Mike Thornton Excerpts
Tuesday 14th January 2014

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Mike Thornton Portrait Mike Thornton (Eastleigh) (LD)
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Is it not always a good idea constantly to make savings and improve delivery? Is that not what every businessman would do every day of his life? To say that that is not a good idea is very strange.

Cheryl Gillan Portrait Mrs Gillan
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I am not saying that it is not a good idea; I am asking what the hundreds of people who have been working on the project have been doing over the past four years. Surely—