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Debate between Helen Grant and Mike Penning
Thursday 23rd June 2011

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Penning Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mike Penning)
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We welcome the Committee’s report. If the hon. Lady looks at it carefully, she will see that it actually says that the status quo is not acceptable and that coastguard stations need to close. The process we inherited from the previous Administration had been sitting on their desks for years. We said right at the start of the process that we would listen and come up with proposals after consulting. It is a shame that they did not do the same.

Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald) (Con)
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T4. Will the Minister meet me to discuss performance issues on the Medway valley line, which runs through my constituency?