Part of High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:15 pm on 8 March 2016.
Andy McDonald
Shadow Minister (Transport)
2:15,
8 March 2016
I am sure that the Minister has taken on board my comments. However, will he clarify something for me? We have talked continuously about mitigations, surveying, further mitigations and temporary rehousing. I hope that I am accounting for him correctly when I say that there is no mention anywhere of permanent rehousing where the noise levels and other disturbances have reached such a pitch of uninhabitability that that would be necessary. I am not sure that that point ever came across in his comments.
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