Oral Answers to Questions — Rail Freight

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 April 2001.

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Photo of Anne McIntosh Anne McIntosh Conservative, Vale of York 12:00, 24 April 2001

The Minister will be aware of my personal interest in Railtrack and FirstGroup, and will probably have received representations from the Potter Group of Melmerby in Vale of York, which is particularly anxious for its businesses at Selby and Ely to benefit from rail freight grants. Would the Government see fit to extend such grants to smaller operators such as the Potter Group, rather than to big players such as English Welsh and Scottish?