High Speed 2 (East Midlands)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 12 September 2013.

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Photo of Simon Burns 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.

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