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HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalWe are told that the cost has risen from £57 billion to £80 billion, and rumour has it that it is now more than £100 billion. I am not in a position to make an informed judgment…02 Mar 2020HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalOn the contrary, it was one of the most cataclysmic episodes of the HS2 story. When everybody and his dog knew that Carillion was in difficulties, and hedge fund managers were…02 Mar 2020HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalI welcome the Minister to his place. The Labour party is supportive of the motion—as can be seen from the massed ranks of the Opposition behind me right now!—because we see HS2 as…02 Mar 2020HANSARD Airport ExpansionI welcome the Minister to her place. Last week, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Government’s Heathrow expansion plan was unlawful as it failed to consider their Paris climate…02 Mar 2020HANSARD Airport Expansion(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport to make a statement on airport expansion.02 Mar 2020HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalI think the hon. Gentleman makes a very valid point. The issues of governance and communication have to be improved, and I think everybody in the House would agree with that. On…02 Mar 2020HANSARD High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill: RevivalI take that admonishment, Madam Deputy Speaker, and simply satisfy my hon. Friend by saying that the Labour party entered the last general election with a fully costed regional…02 Mar 2020HANSARD TransportI agree entirely. It is remarkable that London is the only city of any comparison that is without a central Government grant. Some of the measures that we would be taking, were we…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI will give way one more time, but then I really must crack on.05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportAh!05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportNo, it is not. Is the Secretary of State aware that it is more than a decade since the effectiveness of regulators in the transport industry was seriously questioned or…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI have already indicated that I will not give way because so many people want to speak. Fifteen per cent. of the UK’s population accounts for 70% of all flights, and half the…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI am aware that many people want to speak, so if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will carry on. Labour set 2030 as the date for ending the sale of new diesel and petrol…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI will give way one more time, but then I must make progress.05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportMy message is that our country is about to miss its own targets for the fourth and fifth carbon targets, and that is an appalling record. That is on the Government’s own…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI entirely agree with my hon. Friend. The Welsh Government are taking a serious issue more seriously, and they are to be commended for their work. What is more, transport is the…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportMy hon. Friend has made a very good point. Access to public transport should be treated as a right, so that disabled people can travel spontaneously as other people can. Many of…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportWe are dealing with 2020 and the risible record of this Government. I know that a number of Conservative Members think that the world started in 2020, but the Government have been…05 Feb 2020HANSARD TransportI beg to move, That this House acknowledges that the UK’s transport emissions have not substantially fallen since 1990 and have increased since 2010; and calls on the Government…05 Feb 2020HANSARDTrain FaresThat is a curious interpretation of the experience of British rail passengers. The Transport Secretary will know that fuel duty has been frozen since 2010 at the cost of more than…30 Jan 2020