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Transport (Greater Manchester)

May I add my condolences to those expressed earlier? In the past year or so, we have had some grievous losses in Greater Manchester—from police officers in the ranks, to the very senior ranks. Our thoughts are with the family of that officer. I thank my right hon. Friend for this announcement. For a decade, those of us living on the western side of Greater Manchester have been under-resourced in the extreme when it comes to public transport infrastructure. Her announcement today is welcome to me, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) and my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner), particularly in the light of the campaign for more than a decade for a new station at Golborne. Can my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport facilitate a meeting between now and the autumn involving the transport authority, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh and I, Network Rail and the rail franchise, to ensure that in the autumn we can agree the option for the construction of a new station in Golborne? That would be the first in this area since the Beeching axe took it away in the first place.