Rail Update

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:39 pm on 29 November 2017.

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Photo of Kevin Foster Kevin Foster Conservative, Torbay 1:39, 29 November 2017

I welcome the overall thrust of this plan. As the Secretary of State will know, it is probably no coincidence that the current GWR franchise covers roughly the same area that the railway company did back in the 1930s, so it is interesting to note the proposal to split. Can he reassure me that in any consideration of this the top priority will be services to passengers, particularly maintaining direct links between London Paddington and Paignton?