HC Deb 18 May 1998 vol 312 c225W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what progress has been made in securing the future of the channel rail link; and if he will make a statement. [42137]

Ms Glenda Jackson

In his answer of 27 March 1998,Official Report, columns 295–96, to my hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Mr. Timms), my right hon. Friend said that the cure period under the CTRL Development Agreement within which London and Continental Railways (LCR) could bring forward their improved proposals to the Government had been extended to 29 May 1998. Discussions with LCR are continuing and we await their final proposals. My right hon. Friend will make a statement in due course.