Mole sticks to the script on IEP

摘要

Despite unresolved cost and funding issues, Transport Minister Chris Mole claimed that the delivery schedule for DfT's Intercity Express Programme is unchanged in a written answer given in the House of Commons on October 21. Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary Norman Baker had asked how many new diesel trains the department intended to procure for services on the East Coast Main Line, and when the first and last of these orders were likely to be placed and delivered.