Channel Tunnel

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 February 1991.

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Photo of Malcolm Rifkind Malcolm Rifkind The Secretary of State for Transport 12:00, 11 February 1991

I should have thought that the hon. Lady would be the last to raise such subjects, given that the investment proposals for British Rail approved by the Government give it the highest level of investment that it has had for 30 years. Such was the dereliction of duty by the last Labour Government that we have had to spend some considerable effort on reversing that neglect. That is why British Rail now has its highest capital programme for investment since the begining of the 1960s.