Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Marsh (Crossbench). It was answered on Wednesday, 17 October 2007.
Channel Tunnel: Rail Freight
- Question
- My Lords, does the Minister not agree that some of this friction, which undoubtedly exists across the system, is due to the fact that this country’s network is virtually the only one that is not state owned? Does he not accept that there is at least a case for saying that we should look again at privatisation?
- Answer
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My Lords, that is not a question that I particularly want to open up. We have had a decade of continued growth on our rail network with the current system. I recognise that any system will develop some problems, but we have had a very good record—I was about to say ““track record””—in railway growth over the past decade. I think that many of our European partners would like to equal that growth.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 695 c698
- Session
- 2006-07
- Oral question type
- Supplementary
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- House of Lords chamber
- Subjects
- High Speed 1 line Freight Railways
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