Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"Does the hon. Gentleman accept, as I am afraid I do, that the economic arguments from those in favour and those against are pretty thin and are based on guesswork about who might be using a train and why in the year 2040?..."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"rose—..."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"Lots of people pull into Euston, and they want to continue to do so without being interrupted for the next 15 years by the works on HS2. In relation to the impact on my constituency, surely the point is that although all the proposals in the Bill—which the House has …..."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"The Euston arch could be rebuilt tomorrow. We do not need a huge engineering project to justify it. We could simply dig the stones out of the canal and rebuild the arch where it used to stand, and we could do that tomorrow...."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"I fear that the right hon. Gentleman has been very badly briefed by his officials, because he ought to know—his officials certainly ought to know this, although they probably do not, if my experience is anything to go by—that there were outline proposals for the redevelopment of Euston station that …..."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Jan 2015
HS2 Funding Referendum Bill
"The sort of thing the Minister is now saying is what HS2 has been saying endlessly to people and then ignoring them. The people in the area—not just their MP but the people themselves—were promised that the revised proposals for Euston would be made public for consultation in October last …..."Frank Dobson - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 19th January 2015
Asked by:
Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff of HS2 Ltd are employed on personal service contracts.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
No staff are employed directly by HS2 Ltd on personal services contracts.
Written Question
Monday 19th January 2015
Asked by:
Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff of HS2 Ltd on personal service contracts are paid more than £1,000 a day.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
There are no staff employed directly by HS2 Ltd on personal services contracts.
Written Question
Monday 19th January 2015
Asked by:
Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of building the London terminus for High Speed 2 at Euston.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The plans for Euston are being developed to meet the timescales of the current parliamentary process. The revised scheme will be deposited later this year to enable consideration of the scheme in Select Committee. This will include the latest cost estimate for building the station.
Written Question
Monday 19th January 2015
Asked by:
Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any employers have indicated an intention to transfer activities from London to Birmingham after the opening of Phase 1 of High Speed 2.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport are not aware of any businesses that have indicated that they plan to relocate from London to Birmingham. However, as the HS2 scheme is not expected to receive Royal Assent until 2016 and will not be operational until 2026, the Department would not expect businesses to make relocation plans at this early stage.
In the interim period however, Greater Birmingham and Solihull’s Local Enterprise Partnership are undertaking work as part of both their Strategic Economic Plans to attract more jobs and businesses to their area. They are also developing HS2 Growth Strategies to maximise the wider benefits the railway will bring.