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Education: Disability Financing
Monday 10th July 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I will certainly have a look at the report, now that the noble Lord has drawn my attention to it.

Lord Framlingham Portrait Lord Framlingham (Con)
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My Lords, the Minister is well aware of the general feeling in the country that HS2 is a waste of time. Can I urge him to review it urgently because, if common sense prevails and that silly scheme is scrapped, there will be plenty of money for all these very sensible schemes in the north?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I am, of course, aware of the noble Lord’s passionate opposition to HS2. However, I am afraid that on this one occasion I will have to disagree with him, because I think it is an excellent scheme and we will be going ahead with it.

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