Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Paul Holmes Excerpts
Wednesday 8th January 2020

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I have to say to the hon. Lady that I share her outrage, and I understand what she says. We are developing contingency plans for a replacement for Northern Rail. We are also looking at the whole way that the franchising system operates, and she will have seen Keith Williams’s very valuable report on that.

Paul Holmes Portrait Paul Holmes (Eastleigh) (Con)
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Q10. My right hon. Friend has always been a vocal advocate of localism, so what advice can he give to my constituents who are concerned about the local Lib Dem council’s unwanted housing plan in Eastleigh, which would lead to even more overdevelopment without securing the vital infrastructure that Eastleigh needs?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am not surprised by what my hon. Friend says about the cavalier behaviour of the Lib Dem council in Eastleigh. We will ensure that, in so far as we need to build many more homes, which we do, we will supply the infrastructure necessary and do it on brownfield sites.