Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 October 2017.
Jesse Norman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
12:00,
19 October 2017
I can only admire the hon. Lady’s ingenuity in crowbarring a point about Virgin rail into a question about road transport emissions. Obviously the rail Minister, my hon. Friend Paul Maynard, is better placed to answer that, but let me draw her attention to the work that we are doing through the cycling and walking investment strategy on improving the links between rail and cycling.9
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