VoteClimate: Greenfield Station - 28th January 2022

Greenfield Station - 28th January 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Greenfield Station.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-01-28/debates/674CC2A8-1571-401A-8018-C373B7BF21FB/GreenfieldStation

14:37 Rob Roberts (Delyn) (Ind)

In terms of the environmental issues, currently 80% of workers in Delyn use private cars to get to work, compared with just 63% nationally. Only 0.8% of Delyn’s workers use the train for commuting, compared with 5.2% nationally. Increasing the proportion of people using trains in that way, as well as for their leisure activities, would make a huge difference to the carbon footprint of Holywell and north Wales generally, particularly when combined with the recommendations in Sir Peter Hendy’s Union connectivity review to electrify the north Wales coast line. I hope the Government will move forward with that recommendation as soon as possible, as it will go some way towards helping to achieve the target of net zero by 2030.

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