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Department: Wales Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Mohammad Yasin Excerpts
Wednesday 6th September 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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As my hon. Friend will know, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union was recently back in Brussels for a further round of negotiations. Those negotiations have been productive and constructive, but of course we want to see the discussions moving on to the future relationship. What the Government have done over the summer, and will be continuing to do, is to publish a set of position papers that set out options and ideas for how that deep and special partnership can be taken forward. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this is not just a question of what suits the United Kingdom; it is actually in the interests of the European Union to have that good, deep and special partnership.

Mohammad Yasin Portrait Mohammad Yasin (Bedford) (Lab)
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What action is the Prime Minister taking to ensure that my constituents, many of whom are paying in excess of £5,000 to travel to London every year, get a better service, not the one that the new plans under her Government will introduce? Under those plans the people of Bedford will lose the inter-city rail services.

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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If the hon. Gentleman looks at the record of this Government, he will see that we recognise the importance of rail services—

Mohammad Yasin Portrait Mohammad Yasin
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No, you don’t.

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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He says that we don’t, but I suggest he just look at the funding we are putting into improving rail services across this country. That is a sign of our recognition of the importance of those services.