Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Business of the House

Kevin Barron Excerpts
Thursday 13th July 2017

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
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I can assure you that Mrs Hoyle will be the one who will come.

Kevin Barron Portrait Sir Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) (Lab)
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Can the Leader of the House arrange an emergency debate on the re-routing of HS2 in South Yorkshire? At the HS2 briefing for Members last night, the chairman of HS2 said that the reason it is not in favour of the Sheffield Meadowhall station is the lack of backing by Sheffield City Council and the Sheffield chamber of commerce, blatantly ignoring the wishes of the other three councils in South Yorkshire. Can we have an urgent debate on those matters?

Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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The right hon. Gentleman will know that there has been wide consultation on the routes for HS2, as I discovered during phase 1, which has now received Royal Assent, so there have been and will continue to be many opportunities for consultation. I urge him to take every opportunity to feed in to the process as early as he can.