Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 12 September 2013.
Simon Burns
The Minister of State, Department for Transport
9:30,
12 September 2013
My hon. Friend makes a valid point. He is anxious to have a direct service on the conventional rail network from Shrewsbury to London and I have considerable sympathy for and support with that. That is one of the reasons that high-speed rail is so important: it is capacity, capacity, capacity, to echo a former Prime Minister on another subject. That is what will be achieved, which will help areas such as Shrewsbury.