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Lord Snape (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 May 2025

Debate

Public Transport: Expansion and Electrification

Contribution

My Lords, is my noble friend aware that it is more than 40 years since Sir Peter Parker, the then chairman of British Rail, recommended a rolling programme of railway electrification in this country? It would have had, as he said at the time, the twin merits of keeping together the expertise of those carrying out electrification and reducing long-term cost. Does the Minister agree with me that Sir Peter Parker was right then and he would be right now?

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