Rail Reform

Brandon Lewis Excerpts
Thursday 8th March 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the whole point of what we are talking about today: greater collaborative working and formal alliancing where we think that could drive better performance and better value for taxpayers’ money. It is time for the industry to step up to the plate and work together to ensure that our railway system is more efficient than it has been in the past.

Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth) (Con)
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I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. She mentioned the section in the report on train stations—paragraph 4.39. Great Yarmouth, like many towns across the country, has a station that is much in need of repair. May we take it from the report that in future we can look to some new, out-of-the-box thinking on innovative ways to improve our stations for passengers in future?