Rail Infrastructure: South-west

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 28 January 2016.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Ben Bradshaw Ben Bradshaw Labour, Exeter 9:30, 28 January 2016

Of course, that electrification is into south Wales, not the south-west.

The people of the west country well remember the repeated promises from the Transport Secretary, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of billions of pounds of investment in rail in the south-west, but the Minister has just failed, once again, to confirm that the Government will commit a paltry half a million pounds for the feasibility study that Devon and Cornwall needs after the Dawlish disaster into improved resilience and rail transport times. Do not the people of the south-west rightly feel completely betrayed by the Government?