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Intercity Express and Rail Electrification

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

524 c185-200 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2011-0587
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Cardiff-Ebbw Vale Railway Line: Electrification
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Written questions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Roger Williams | 524 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) In the face of gloom, doom and whingeing from the Opposition, this is really good news for Wales. St...

Speaker | 524 c190 (Link to this contribution) Order. A lot of Members wish to get in on this statement, so single and short questions would be wel...

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Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 524 c191 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his announcement on the intercity express programme. As he ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c191 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and I will continue actively t...

Maria Eagle | 524 c187-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the early sight of his statement—he actually sent me two statemen...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c185-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on the Government's plans for extension of the...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c191 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to acknowledge the hon. Gentleman's tireless battle for the IEP. He has arranged for vari...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c199 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a plea for Bombardier, which has a site in his constituency. Bombardier is invo...

Stephen Williams | 524 c200 (Link to this contribution) This statement will be warmly welcomed in Bristol. As an émigré valleys boy, may I also point out th...

Paul Flynn | 524 c199 (Link to this contribution) A word of croeso for the report, but my constituents are still greatly irritated by the fact that th...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c199 (Link to this contribution) I am looking at my map, and, as the Minister of State, Department for Transport, my right hon. Frien...

Edward Timpson | 524 c199 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend ensure that, should the preferred consortium for the IEP contract be unabl...

Philip Hollobone | 524 c200 (Link to this contribution) May I press the case for the midland main line and encourage the Secretary of State to look at the i...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend: it is a vote of confidence in UK manufacturing. This Governm...

Clive Betts | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) Let me bring the Secretary of State to the question of the midland main line—the forgotten line in t...

Lord Wharton of Yarm | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) It is a matter for hon. Members whether they see their glasses as half empty or half full, but I am ...

Gavin Shuker | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) Following the delivery of the IEP, will the Secretary of State tell the House how many ageing inter-...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) Only a small number of diesel 125s will remain on the network, and they will be serving the route do...

Neil Carmichael | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) In congratulating the Secretary of State on what is, so to speak, a first-class example of investmen...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is certainly right to say that one of the benefits of any announcement of new rolling...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) The announcement today does not include provision for the midland main line. The hon. Gentleman ment...

Rob Wilson | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, particularly the increase in passenger capacity that will result. My right ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very sensible point. I will raise it at my next meeting with the chief execut...

Stephen Hammond | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) I welcome unequivocally my right hon. Friend's statement and its excellent news for rail infrastruct...

Stewart Hosie | 524 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and having early sight of it. I agree with the Secretary of State that the p...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) It is not about diesels. There will be no diesel traction locomotives in the mix; there will be bi-m...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) Many people coming from England will access west Wales through Cardiff, and journey times to Cardiff...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts it very eloquently. He has clearly spotted the glass-half-empty tendency of Oppo...

Helen Goodman | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State probably knows that the first steam trains were made in Shildon, so it is qui...

David TC Davies | 524 c194 (Link to this contribution) Had the Secretary of State announced that he was electrifying and putting a high-speed train on ever...

Duncan Hames | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's clarification that electrification to Bristol will also take in t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) I understand that Hitachi will issue a press release broadly simultaneously with my statement that w...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) It may surprise the hon. Gentleman to know that among the many destinations for which I have journey...

Nia Griffith | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will be very disappointed that electrification will be starting in Cardiff, but not ...

Louise Ellman | 524 c194 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the announcement of major investment in rail, although there is considerable disappointmen...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c194 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and I discuss such matters all the time—I alwa...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c194 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady is talking about the wider package, I can tell her that there are obviously many co...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Gentleman that my officials discussed the business case for electrification to S...

Geraint Davies | 524 c193 (Link to this contribution) This is a sad and disappointing St David's day for Swansea—[Hon. Members: ““Ah!””] Well, it is, part...

Alun Cairns | 524 c194 (Link to this contribution) This is a first-class announcement on St David's day for my constituency and the whole south Wales e...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c193 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's comment, because it is at least a constructive comment that pla...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c193 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, we have already announced that we intend to operate a longer defaul...

Martin Horwood | 524 c193 (Link to this contribution) Having travelled the Great Western main line this morning, may I welcome the statement warmly? It pr...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I mentioned this in my statement, but my hon. Friend is absolutely correct—the...

James Gray | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Secretary of State's announcement this afternoon. Will he confirm my memory tha...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I understand that the hon. Lady is disappointed. She has made her pitch to me repeatedly, ...

Sian C James | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) Most of the trains along the south Wales main line have to go to Swansea, because it is a turnaround...

Speaker | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know how passionate the hon. Lady is about this matter, but please can we have single, shor...

Sian C James | 524 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) Having fought a long and hard campaign to get rail electrification in Swansea, I congratulate Cardif...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c191 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; I give my hon. Friend that commitment. The hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria E...

Jonathan Evans | 524 c191 (Link to this contribution) As a Cardiff Member of Parliament, I thank my right hon. Friend unequivocally for today's announceme...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c200 (Link to this contribution) I can only say to my hon. Friend what I said to the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts)—...

Karl McCartney | 524 c198 (Link to this contribution) This might not be quite as headline-grabbing as my right hon. Friend's statement today, but he will ...

Chi Onwurah | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's announcement on the intercity express programme, and I look forward to welcoming t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right that when we get such an opportunity to reinforce our skills base ...

Wayne David | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of St David's day, I respectfully remind the Secretary of State that St David probably...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) We have been treated to a classic rant. There are two types of people in this world: the glass-half-...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c200 (Link to this contribution) I always learn something in these situations. I thought that the world's first railway journey start...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c197 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware of the vigorous campaign to redouble the Kemble to Swindon link, and I know that the...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c196 (Link to this contribution) The value-for-money appraisal certainly shows that the revised Agility proposal represents the highe...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 524 c195 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to look at the issues that the hon. Lady raises. Of course, responsibility for franchised...

Elfyn Llwyd | 524 c192 (Link to this contribution) I fully appreciate the announcement as far as Cardiff and the valley lines are concerned, and I cong...

Subjects

Procurement Railways Railway network Trains Great Western Railway Electrification John Laing Hitachi Agility Trains Intercity Express Programme

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