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  High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill - Decline Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted no to approve spending money on preparations for a high speed rail network connecting at least London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester. 
  @ MP voted aye against spending money on preparations for a high speed rail network connecting at least London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to approve spending money on preparations for a high speed rail network connecting at least London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester. 
  
  
  The text of the rejected motion was:
  
  :That this House
  :''declines'' to give a second reading to a Bill which authorises preparatory expenditure on a railway without specifying further detail of the route and a limit on expenditure.
  
  The High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill proposed approval for expenditure preparing for a high speed railway network connecting at least: London, Birmingham, the East Midlands, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester.  Expenditure covered by the Bill includes surveying, design, land purchase, and compensating affected property owners. 
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/highspeedrailpreparation.html Parliament's webpage on the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill (Now the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Act 2013)]
  
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