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HANSARDAvanti West Coast Contract RenewalMy Lords, Avanti has run only 40% of the services out of Euston that its predecessor ran. The Government’s Answer to this Question refers to Covid as a cause of the problem, but…26 Oct 2022HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 3) Regulations 2022My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comments. Slot alleviation has become routine in the last couple of years. I have always accepted it as an important aspect of ensuring that…25 Oct 2022HANSARDDoncaster Sheffield AirportMy Lords, many local airports have been in trouble since Covid. However, this airport is of great strategic significance. It has one of the longest runways in the UK, it is the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDGreat British RailwaysMy Lords, the state of our railways is a national embarrassment. Yet the withdrawal of this Bill is evidence that the Government are not prioritising them. Meanwhile, the tables…25 Oct 2022HANSARDVehicles: Purchase Price and Running CostsTo ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the report by Fair Charge Driving Away from Fossil Fuels , published on 5 July, which found that if there were parity in purchase price…24 Oct 2022HANSARDPolice National ComputerMy Lords, the Horizon scandal involved 736 innocent sub-postmasters being prosecuted; four suicides; many more individuals and families torn apart by the prolonged cover-up of…24 Oct 2022HANSARDVehicles: Purchase Price and Running CostsMy Lords, the Fair Charge report highlighted the discrepancies in VAT for private and public EV charging. As energy prices rise, the discrepancy becomes even greater in real…24 Oct 2022HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lords, Lord Berkeley and Lord Mountevans, for joining us on some of these amendments. I will briefly underline some of the points that my…12 Oct 2022HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]My Lords, we do not have any amendments in this group, but I take this opportunity simply to make the point that we share the concern of those noble Lords who do have amendments…12 Oct 2022HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]Do I understand, then, that the Government are unable or unwilling to define “close ties”?12 Oct 2022HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]P&O?12 Oct 2022HANSARDSeafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to clarify what the debate has thrown up so far. I fear that the Government are guilty of mission creep on this, which may have occurred with the very best of…12 Oct 2022HANSARDStockton to Darlington Railway AnniversaryMy Lords, I hope I can persuade the Minister to go further than that gentle reply. It appears that the Government funded the Unboxed festival—something visited by only around…11 Oct 2022HANSARDMotor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022My Lords, I thank the Minister for her excellent introduction. Obviously, we welcome this statutory instrument. However, I want to use this opportunity to register my concern at…11 Oct 2022HANSARDMerchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2022My Lords, it is good to see another small step on the long path facing the Department for Transport, as it tries to catch up with the backlog of maritime legislation waiting to be…11 Oct 2022HANSARDAvanti West CoastMy Lords, only last week, funding for Transport for London was made dependent on it continuing to work to introduce driverless trains, so the Government are clearly content to…07 Sept 2022HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2022My Lords, I thank the Minister for her explanation, but I have to comment that there is something surreal about this SI. It talks about a lack of demand at a time when almost all…14 Jul 2022HANSARDHS2: Speed RestrictionsMy Lords, in November, the Government decided to terminate the eastern leg of HS2 in the Midlands rather than at Leeds, as originally promised. When they were criticised for…13 Jul 2022HANSARDLegislative Reform (Provision of Information etc. Relating to Disabilities) Order 2022I thank the Minister for her very clear explanation. This seems a sensible streamlining of the legislation in accordance with the modernisation of clinical practice. It is…12 Jul 2022HANSARDM56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022My Lords, I am pleased to see that the Minister is still with us to answer this debate. There were times last week when I began to wonder whether she would be. In these surreal…11 Jul 2022