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Sixty-six years ago this week, the last regular passenger train called at Middlewich railway station, drawing to a close 92 years of passenger rail travel from the town. A number of students from Middlewich high school have written to me to ask whether the Government would consider reopening the station, and Enterprise Cheshire and Warrington undertook considerable work under the Restoring Your Railway scheme. Will the Secretary of State meet me to discuss the merits of bringing back railway services to the largest town in Cheshire without a station, and restore that vital connection to Manchester, Crewe and beyond?

Asked by
Andrew Cooper (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2026
Reference
778 c442
House
House of Commons

I would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend. How can I resist the invitation to do so when he has been contacted by the next generation about the importance of improving our rail network? I look forward to our discussion.

Answered by
Heidi Alexander (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
8 January 2026
Reference
778 c442
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will continue to fund improvements to the Middlewich Eastern Bypass.

Asked by
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 September 2024
Reference
2264
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to make a decision on the allocation of grant funding for the Middlewich Eastern Bypass programme.

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 March 2024
Reference
17832
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an urgent decision on the full business case relating to the Middlewich Eastern Bypass to facilitate the commencement of construction.

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 February 2024
Reference
13563
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to facilitate the process for consideration of the Full Business Case for the Middlewich Eastern Bypass in the Congleton constituency.

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 May 2023
Reference
184805
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what further funding the Government can provide to help secure progress towards the opening of a new railway station for Middlewich.

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 September 2021
Reference
38245
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to progress consideration of reopening of the Mid Cheshire rail line and Middlewich railway station.

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 February 2021
Reference
143735
House
House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow so many excellent maiden speeches.

Following the announcement on HS2, may I once again mention that if HS2 is to have value for my constituents in the Middlewich area, there is a pressing need to reopen Middlewich railway station to passengers? I have spoken about...

Member
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 February 2020
Reference
671 cc1040-2
House
House of Commons

Reopening Middlewich railway station to passengers is a matter of crucial importance to many of my constituents. What progress is being made on developing the business case for that?

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
19 April 2018
Reference
639 c460
House
House of Commons

I know there is strong local support for improvements to the rail network in Cheshire. I am pleased to confirm that the Cheshire and Warrington local enterprise partnership is in the process of establishing a working group with local authority partners and Network Rail to examine the feasibility of reopening the mid-Cheshire link railway line, including Middlewich station, in my hon. Friend’s constituency, and that the Department has offered to provide advice.

Answered by
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Transport
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
19 April 2018
Reference
639 c460
House
House of Commons

My Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Grayling), has made the following Ministerial Statement.

I am today setting out further details of significant investment for our roads, including announcing the next two major local road schemes and 76 winners from the recent competition for National Productivity Investment...

Member
Lord Callanan (Conservative)
Department
Department for Transport
Type
Written statements
Date
19 October 2017
Reference
HLWS182
House
House of Lords

I am today setting out further details of significant investment for our roads, including announcing the next two major local road schemes and 76 winners from the recent competition for National Productivity Investment Funding on local roads. This funding from the Department for Transport totals £345.3 million.

This funding includes...

Member
Lord Grayling (Conservative)
Department
Department for Transport
Type
Written statements
Date
19 October 2017
Reference
HCWS180
House
House of Commons

It is always a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Jeremy Lefroy), whose sincerity in serving his constituents and his concern for the poorest across the globe, particularly in Africa, is unparalleled in this place.

I want to speak in support of the wonderful town of Middlewich...

Member
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
24 March 2016
Reference
607 cc1850-4
House
House of Commons

Construction of the Middlewich eastern bypass would open up substantial local and wider growth opportunities. Will the Minister meet me to discuss how this long-awaited project can be progressed?

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Communities and Local Government
Topical questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
21 March 2016
Reference
607 cc1227-1355
House
House of Commons

My hon. Friend is one of the most passionate and committed advocates for her constituency that I have yet encountered in the House. I know how much the investment she craves for Middlewich matters to her. I would of course be delighted to meet her, and any representatives of the local community she should wish to bring, to see what the Government can to do help to bolster the case.

Answered by
Lord Wharton of Yarm (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Communities and Local Government
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
21 March 2016
Reference
607 c1227
House
House of Commons

I completely understand my hon. Friend’s concern; she is right to raise this issue and I can understand her disappointment that the local planning board’s decision was appealed against. As she knows, however, appeals against a decision on such a planning application can be made to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. She can make her views clear. It would be inappropriate to prejudge any decision that he might take, but obviously there is a need to take into account the size and scale of any proposed development and to consider the potential effect on any local community. I am sure that she will want to make those points.

Answered by
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
13 June 2012
Reference
546 c320
House
House of Commons

Q7

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[110305]

Fiona Bruce (Congleton) (Con):

My constituency has a high recycling rate—the best in the north-west—so does the Prime Minister believe it right for a huge waste-burning incinerator to be built there? The incinerator was rejected by the local planning board, is overwhelmingly opposed by my constituents in Middlewich and would involve transporting lorry-loads of waste hundreds of miles across the country. Will he do what he can to prevent an inappropriate development that surely cannot be called environmentally sustainable or an example of true localism?

Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 June 2012
Reference
546 c320
House
House of Commons
I agree with my hon. Friend that local considerations should be taken into account. That is one reason why we have made the changes to the Infrastructure Planning Commission. It is important that local communities have their say, and she has put the case extremely strongly.
Answered by
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
30 March 2011
Reference
526 c342
House
House of Commons
A multinational is applying to build an incinerator the size of a football pitch some 500 metres from the small market town of Middlewich in my constituency. There is no need for this provision; it will involve importing waste and it has been unanimously rejected by the local planning committee. Does the Prime Minister agree that the concerns of local people over the negative impact that it will have on their town should be afforded paramount importance when the proposal is considered on appeal?
Asked by
Fiona Bruce (Conservative)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
30 March 2011
Reference
526 c342
House
House of Commons