Railways Bill (Eighth sitting) - 29th January 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Railways Bill (Eighth sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-01-29/debates/94A2350F-D280-478C-8044-67B276C9A87C/RailwaysBillEighthsitting

14:55 Laurence Turner (Labour)

I am not sure that I follow the logic of the hon. Gentleman’s argument. Our job here is to look at the network and the service as a whole. This is an integrated, engineering, safety-critical industry of many parts, all of which interact with one another. This is a key point, and we have said it before: sometimes, hard choices need to be made about prioritisation. I fear that if we have the two growth targets sitting alongside each other with no weighting between them, what we will actually get is the status quo. Freight is, of course, essential to the economy and to decarbonisation, and we cannot run the risk of it being squeezed out.

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