Clause 58 - Resumption of Previous use of Land

Part of High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Bill – in the House of Commons at 8:15 pm on 19 January 2021.

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Photo of John Spellar John Spellar Labour, Warley 8:15, 19 January 2021

Is one of the main drivers not peak-time capacity and daytime capacity? Inter-city travel is very much driven by business travel. We have seen how remote conferencing—Zoom we call it, but there are all the other companies as well—has changed the ways in which people are undertaking those meetings. Might that not really drive down use, so that we do not need that peak-time capacity? In the evenings, there is no problem at all, and that may be when people travel for leisure. Has there not possibly been a significant change?