HC Deb 02 July 2001 vol 371 cc13-4W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what progress has been made on the feasibility study for a second channel Tunnel. [1031]

Mr. Spellar

At the end of 1999 Eurotunnel sent to the Governments of France and the UK, through the Channel Tunnel Intergovernmental Commission, a package relating to two tunnel projects, one road the other rail. Eurotunnel submitted that package in order to discharge an undertaking in the Concession Agreement to submit, before 2000, a proposal for a drive through link.

Eurotunnel described these as proposals which are likely to evolve in the light of technical and economic developments. There is no cause for the Government to take a decision for several years.