Transport Infrastructure Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Transport Infrastructure

Stephen Kinnock Excerpts
Tuesday 11th February 2020

(4 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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First, I extend my commiserations to all the people of Calder Valley who have experienced flooding. We all know how traumatic a flood can be. I can assure my hon. Friend that we will certainly allow no delay in pushing ahead with all the branches of the project.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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The HS2 project, albeit somewhat shambolically handled, is great news for England, but it shows once again the contempt in which this Government hold the people of Wales. The entire budget for electrifying the main line to Swansea would be less than 1% of the vast sums that are being talked about today. So will the Prime Minister commit today to electrifying the main line to Swansea, or will he continue to hold the people of Wales in contempt?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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As I just said to the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards), north Wales will benefit from the line to Crewe. We have already electrified the line to Cardiff. I urge the hon. Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock) to get on to his friends in the Welsh Labour Government, who squandered £144 million on a study for the bypass of the M4, which they then decided not to do.