Extract from Commons statement on HS2 - Sep 5
Friday, 6 September 2019 08:40
Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP):...The current proposals
also mean that journeys north of Crewe to Scotland will be slower
than the existing Virgin service. Will the review look at that and
perhaps a different type of rolling stock? If it does, what will
that mean for the existing rolling stock and ongoing procurement?
What further reviews and cost-benefit analyses will be done of
track design that could mean slower high-speed trains but reduced
costs? What is the contractual status...Request free trial
(Kilmarnock and Loudoun)
(SNP):...The current proposals also mean that journeys
north of Crewe to Scotland will be slower than the existing Virgin
service. Will the review look at that and perhaps a different type
of rolling stock? If it does, what will that mean for the existing
rolling stock and ongoing procurement? What further reviews and
cost-benefit analyses will be done of track design that could mean
slower high-speed trains but reduced costs? What is the contractual
status of the recent contract awards to First Trenitalia given that
the Government might now be doing a full stock decision? What would
that mean for that contract? What is the committed spend, to date,
in the Barnett allocations to Scotland, and what will happen going
forward? We were promised at the Dispatch Box that on day one of
the high-speed trains operating they would go all the way to
Scotland, and that is now not the case. Will the Secretary of State
answer those questions and, if not, please put his responses in
writing?
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