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Kent Coast Railway Line

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

507 c100-23WH 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Roger Gale | 507 c100-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to place on the official record something that has been the subje...

Adam Holloway | 507 c102WH (Link to this contribution) The high-speed train services have been amazing and transformative in my constituency, but, of cours...

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Roger Gale | 507 c104-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Some of the changes dramatically affect his constituents. If he ...

Roger Gale | 507 c102-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is leading me down a path that I was not going to go down, but he has given me the op...

Julian Brazier | 507 c103-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way while making a powerful speech, and I congratula...

Chris Mole | 507 c121-3WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has his views—others beg to differ. It is important to recognise that introducin...

Roger Gale | 507 c110WH (Link to this contribution) We are going to be told later, I suspect, that there will be a review and that things might get bett...

Gwyn Prosser | 507 c108-10WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale), who might be surprised to he...

Roger Gale | 507 c106-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will no doubt make his view known and I am sure that his constituents, such as Mr...

Gwyn Prosser | 507 c106WH (Link to this contribution) I have listened with interest to the hon. Gentleman's speech and to the complaints from many of his ...

Stephen Hammond | 507 c118WH (Link to this contribution) As he has to wait such a long time before I finish, yes.

Stephen Hammond | 507 c117-8WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I would be delighted to explain that to the hon. Gentleman. The economics are simple. If...

Chris Mole | 507 c118WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Stephen Hammond | 507 c115-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Benton. My hon. Friend the Member for Faversh...

Tom Brake | 507 c117WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just said that in the event of a Conservative Government he will ensure that ...

Hugh Robertson | 507 c119-20WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to disrupt the Minister too much early on but, in a sense, he has put his finger on th...

Chris Mole | 507 c119WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr. Benton. It would be normal for...

Stephen Hammond | 507 c118-9WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that. I am sure that the Minister will want to deal with my question in a...

Roger Gale | 507 c118WH (Link to this contribution) We had better get this right for the record. It is not RPI plus 3 per cent. The Minister knows that ...

Stephen Hammond | 507 c118WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that it was generally accepted. Would he like to confirm that no part of the fare ...

Chris Mole | 507 c118WH (Link to this contribution) I am trying to understand how the hon. Gentleman justifies the assertion that fares across Kent have...

Tom Brake | 507 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. I think he just confirmed that the fare increase ...

Chris Mole | 507 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I once travelled some hundreds of miles on a Polish train during a Select Committee visit, when an a...

Gwyn Prosser | 507 c110WH (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with that remark. My experience of the Department for Transport is that it take...

Hugh Robertson | 507 c111-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale) on securing the debate. In our ...

Tom Brake | 507 c113WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale) on securing this important debate. I shal...

Roger Gale | 507 c113WH (Link to this contribution) Just to set the record straight, the figure is £13.50: about £4.50 each way plus £2.50 return on the...

Tom Brake | 507 c114WH (Link to this contribution) We could probably trade statistics for the remainder of the time allotted today. However, I think th...

Chris Mole | 507 c114WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman rushes into making European comparisons, he should know that one of the fe...

Tom Brake | 507 c114-5WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister agrees—I believe that this was certainly a priority at some point for the t...

Chris Mole | 507 c114WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to continue to exchange statistics with the hon. Gentleman. For the same period, disposab...

Tom Brake | 507 c113-4WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his intervention, and I am happy to concede that. He has probably also trav...

Stephen Hammond | 507 c120WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear about the new iterative process. Is that a new process or was the Minister's ...

Chris Mole | 507 c120WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has gone to the heart of the concern. Of course, if one focuses only on commuters...

Roger Gale | 507 c121WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister reading a prepared script quickly will not make any difference to the people we have be...

Chris Mole | 507 c120-1WH (Link to this contribution) At the end of the day, when the Department lets a franchise, it lets a franchise associated with a t...

Subjects

Capital investment Fares Infrastructure Franchises High speed trains Railways Standards Southeastern (2006-21) North Kent line

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