HS2 Update

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Andy McDonald) for the Opposition’s continued...

I thank you, Mr Speaker, and I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the House to make a sta...

We of course monitor the fitness for contracts of all the companies we award contracts to. The co...

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement, and for his honesty in admitti...

As I said earlier, this project benefits the whole United Kingdom. It will reduce journey times t...

As my right hon. Friend knows, I am profoundly and deeply opposed to phase 2, which goes straight...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend; I accept that it is never easy when a project like this comes th...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement today. Certainty about the route and the timetabl...

I thank the hon. Lady for her support for the project as a whole. I accept her criticism; I met t...

Order. I do not wish to embarrass an hon. Member by naming the person, but one hon. Member in the...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. He has confirmed that there will be a major const...

One of the advantages of the site is that it adjoins the west coast main line, and I expect as mu...

I am afraid that the Secretary of State’s statement will provoke deep anger among my constituents...

I know how strongly the right hon. Gentleman feels about this—he and I have spoken about it—and I...

In Broxtowe, many people support HS2—rightly, in my view—because we know that it will bring jobs ...

As the hybrid Bill goes through its consideration in this House, there will be have to be debates...

The Secretary of State referred to the “good news”. This is not good news at all for people in Me...

I know that the hon. Gentleman feels strongly about this project, which does affect his constitue...

When I predicted in 2013 that the cost of HS2 would balloon to £100 billion, I was wrong. It is c...

I know that my hon. Friend also feels strongly about this project, but I remind him that HS2’s pu...

Will the Secretary of State confirm that he has once again dismissed proposals for cut and over o...

The first thing to say is that we have taken a lot of care to try to put mitigation measures in p...

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Tatton or Shipley? Esther McVey.

Good choice, Mr Speaker.

I appreciate that the Secretary of State is seeking to be decisive...

This is my first opportunity to welcome my right hon. Friend back to the House. I am delighted to...

Between 2013 and 2016, a station at Sheffield Meadowhall was preferred by HS2. Sir David Higgins ...

We worked through the decision between the two routes very carefully. It is the case that more ho...

There are many people, including in Yorkshire, who think that HS2 is a huge waste of money that c...

As the Treasury is paying the bill—

Taxpayers are.

The taxpayers are paying the bill, but believe me the Treasury keeps a pretty careful watch on pu...

The strength of HS2 is about expanding the capacity of the rail network as a whole, so will the S...

As the hon. Lady knows, Liverpool is one of the cities that will be served from the start by HS2 ...

Although I welcome the clarity that today’s announcement brings to residents of Long Eaton, Sandi...

I do agree, and I am very grateful to my hon. Friend and to the people of Long Eaton; as she know...

Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have been awarded 100% Barnett consequentials from HS2, wherea...

If Members look at what we are doing now, they will see that we are in the process of modernising...

May I say to the Secretary of State that my constituents in Wimboldsley and Winsford will be deva...

We will attempt to make sure that we deliver mitigations where we can. It is worth saying that on...

The original justification for the Hoo Green to Bamfurlong spur was the siting of a stock depot a...

No, I do not, because the Golborne link is an important part of ensuring good connectivity for Pr...

My right hon. Friend is already well aware of my constituents and my concerns over the route over...

On the latter point, I can give my hon. Friend the assurance that we cannot end up with principal...

The Secretary of State might remember that I have been a consistent opponent of the project for a...

If we roll the clock back 30 years, we were being told that about the rail network, and large chu...

Lichfield has been blighted twice by HS2, first by phase 1 and now by phase 2a. Farms are facing ...

My hon. Friend talks about congestion; he should see the communications that I receive from peopl...

The Secretary of State will have heard the concerns from across the House about the costs of this...

I can give the hon. Lady an absolute assurance that when it comes to letting contracts, we are no...

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Ah yes, the man in the cream suit: Mr Alec Shelbrooke.

Bringing some brightness to this late hour.

May I say to my right hon. Friend the Secretary...

My hon. Friend makes an interesting suggestion that I will pass on to the HS2 team. I am very gla...

May I ask the Secretary of State for a clarification and about a point of omission? On the clarif...

As we get towards the opening of this part of the route in 2033, we will have to make sure that t...

Andrew Percy.

Thank you, Mr Speaker; again, a good choice. I am a huge supporter of HS2; it is absolutely neede...

We are doing the work on the parkway station at the moment, and I am interested in getting the vi...

Will the Secretary of State please confirm to my constituents in Crewe and Nantwich that the hub ...

The answer is that I expect the Crewe hub to be at the current Crewe station. There is huge poten...

I call Mr Simon Hoare.

I stand as Hobson’s choice, I think, Mr Speaker.

Huskisson and his predecessors will have h...

My hon. Friend is right. In the event that I am still Transport Secretary when the first train ru...

The Secretary of State has indicated that the project will generate jobs throughout the region, 6...

I have been very clear to HS2 and to our contractors that I expect them to work with small and em...

The Secretary of State has talked a great deal about my great city of Stoke-on-Trent, but he said...

Let me be very clear—indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) h...

In Chesterfield, we stand ready to take advantage of the opportunity created by the jobs at the n...

I can confirm that Chesterfield will have a service on HS2. I can also confirm that the HS2 route...

At a line-of-route briefing last week with MPs from Yorkshire and the midlands and me, I was dism...

I cannot comment on the original individual conversations. I simply repeat the point I made earli...

I welcome the focus of the statement on the Crewe hub and its importance to the wider area of Che...

The Crewe station site has the potential to be much more than just a station. There is a big rege...

The Secretary of State will know that, in May 2015, HS2 Ltd decided that there was no credible bu...

As I said earlier, our goal is to work to deliver that three-hour journey time we talked about, a...

The Secretary of State will be aware that local authorities in north Wales have been very support...

I absolutely expect that to be the case. Of course, the benefit of taking the current express tra...

May I start by saying to the Minister—[Interruption.] I have not even got there yet. The Minister...

I met my hon. Friend the new Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) today to talk about ...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for confirming in his response to my hon. Friend the Memb...

We are talking about the ability to run an electric train from London, up HS2, around the route i...