Flooding: Transport Disruption Debate
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Huw Irranca-Davies
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Flooding: Transport Disruption
Huw Irranca-Davies Excerpts(10 years, 3 months ago)
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Mr McLoughlin
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who knows better than most the immense work going into improving resilience. Not long after I was appointed to this post, I went to Shugborough tunnel, which was closed over the Christmas period as it was being relaid; about £3 million was spent on getting the rails up and putting new drainage in. The works meant that trains could run through the tunnel at 125 mph rather than 50 mph. Nobody will have seen that £3 million being spent but it was one part of the very many things going on across the whole rail network that improve the facilities and services for our constituents.
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore) (Lab)
As the Secretary of State will know, if there is genuinely new money, there will be discussions about the Barnett consequentials. Are such discussions going on? If he cannot reveal a figure, will he at least confirm that the announcements over the past couple of weeks have been about new money? If so, there will be Barnett consequentials.
Mr McLoughlin
Network Rail serves Wales as well, so Wales will get its share of the money that Network Rail is investing in the whole railway structure.