Rail Investment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 4:13 pm on 16 July 2012.

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Photo of Justine Greening Justine Greening The Secretary of State for Transport 4:13, 16 July 2012

The hon. Gentleman raised the question with me only last week in a meeting that I had with him on High Speed 2. As I said to him then, there are some challenges in doing as he suggests, but one of the most important aspects of the High Speed 2 business case is to ensure that as many communities as possible are connected up with it, and that we do that as soon as possible. I have no doubt that we will continue to look at whether those options are available to us and we can progress them. In the meantime the great news for him is that we will see High Speed coming up to his part of the country and it will hugely benefit his community when it gets there.