Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Davies Excerpts
Thursday 11th June 2015

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Claire Perry Portrait Claire Perry
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The Government welcome the devolution of these inner services to the Mayor and Transport for London, which, again, demonstrates our support for devolution when appropriate. However, many people using those lines will be coming from further afield, and the national franchising system provides the best way to secure rail services. We are freezing rail fares for the next five years and working extremely hard to deliver a massive infrastructure improvement that will benefit the right hon. Lady’s constituents, as well as those across the UK.

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
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A collapsed wall is blocking one lane of an already congested road through the centre of Shipley. That wall is owned by Network Rail. My constituents have been waiting for months for it to be repaired by Network Rail, but it keeps delaying and we now face a further three-month delay before the wall is fixed. Will the Minister get Network Rail to pull its finger out and get that wall repaired straightaway?