Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

John Grogan Excerpts
Thursday 13th June 2019

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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The hon. Lady will know that in the north large numbers of brand new trains are being tested and prepared for launch. She talks about new trains in London, but there are new trains in London, the north, the midlands, the south-west, the east coast main line, and the Great Western main line, as part of a massive investment by this Government in the railways and in better trains across the whole country, including her constituency.

John Grogan Portrait John Grogan (Keighley) (Lab)
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Is it time that Transport for the North got the same powers as Transport for London—namely the ability to determine spending priorities in the region without all final decisions being made in Whitehall?