HC Deb 07 March 1956 vol 549 cc194-5W
Dr. Broughton

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation how far the reductions to be made in capital expenditure at the direction of Her Majesty's Government on the programme for the railways in the coming year, will affect the future programme for improvement and electrification of the line between London and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Mr. Watkinson

I am not in a position to make a statement about the exact place to be assigned to this particular scheme in the British Transport Commission's modernisation programme, but the Commission has said that the reductions which have had to be made in capital expenditure this year will not affect the major development work of that programme.