Refurbishing Trains: Contracts Debate
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Lord Grocott
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Refurbishing Trains: Contracts
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Lord Grocott (Lab)
My Lords, I do not think the Minister answered properly the question about HS2. It was, in my view, a disastrous decision made by the Government to cancel the Derby and Manchester links, so can he tell us how many trains were required, had those links still been about to be built, and how many trains are now required, so we can work out the deficit for ourselves? While he is about it, will he please answer a question which his department has repeatedly been unable to answer for me as a Written Question: precisely how much money has been lost—wasted—as a result of the cancellations to which I have referred?
Lord Davies of Gower (Con)
The noble Lord asks two very fair questions. I do not have those details to hand, but I will ensure that he gets them in written form.