Member

I have also heard the representations of my honourable friends the Members for Milton Keynes North, Chris Curtis, for Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington, and for Buckingham and Bletchley, Callum Anderson, and I can tell the House today that to connect Oxford and Cambridge and to back Milton Keynes’s leading tech sector I am providing a further £2.5 billion for the continued delivery of East West Rail. On a matter that I know is of great importance to my honourable friends the Members for Lichfield, Dave Robertson, for Birmingham Northfield, Laurence Turner, and for Birmingham Erdington, Paulette Hamilton, I can announce today that I am providing funding for the Midlands rail hub: the region’s biggest and most ambitious rail improvement scheme for generations, strengthening connections from Birmingham across the West Midlands and into Wales, too.