Rail Funding in Wales - 24th November 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Rail Funding in Wales.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-11-24/debates/86C023CE-1292-4F26-840D-DF14AAA1AE7F/RailFundinginWales

Geraint Davies

The Minister will know that HS2 will reduce travel times from London to Manchester from two hours 10 minutes to one hour 10 minutes and by even more to Scotland, yet the travel time by train to Swansea, which I represent, will remain at about three hours. How is it that Scotland will get an additional £8 billion in Barnett consequentials but Wales will not get the £5 billion that it should get, given that in the past 12 years we have seen only 1.5% of the rail enhancements go to Wales? Will he look at that again and meet me to discuss it, so that we can have our fair share to deliver net zero, improve productivity and deliver levelling up?

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