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HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, Amendment 1 is impossible to disagree with. It is fundamental to the survival of our railways that things improve. They have reached crisis point because of decades of…06 Nov 2024HANSARDFranchising Schemes (Franchising Authorities) (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, I welcome the progress on franchising represented by this SI. I always felt it was a great pity that the 2017 Act made franchising so complex, so I am pleased about the…05 Nov 2024HANSARDWales: Public ServicesMy Lords, the previous Conservative Government decided that, despite the fact that not a single yard of HS2 would be built in Wales, it would not get any Barnett consequential…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation. There is no doubt about the need for action in relation to aviation. UK aviation fuel use more than doubled between 1990 and…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRailway 200My Lords, one of the commercial supporters of the celebration the noble Lord referred to is Alstom, a train manufacturer based in Derby. Some months ago, there were serious…31 Oct 2024HANSARDMV “Ruby”: Ammonium NitrateMy Lords, as the previous question has illustrated, there is a complex background to this situation. A couple of years ago, it was discovered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny…31 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I believe this is the most important group of amendments today because it has passengers at the core. I have added my name to three amendments because I am so convinced…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, one of the clear attractions of the new system should be increased transparency. There should be no chance that the new authority would be able to hide behind commercial…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI want just to make the point that, as the Minister well knows, the fare system is so complicated that, in practice, people have not been able to understand it adequately in order…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, there are of course some excellent examples of open access operators and some very successful ones, but I am a bit sceptical. We have a Government who are so opposed to…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, the amendment and the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Young, indicate the obvious advantages of nationalisation in terms of greater access to information and…23 Oct 2024HANSARDHS2: Purchased LandMy Lords, does the Minister agree that building a modern railway should surely include level boarding, in order to make disability access available to everyone? Does he therefore…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I support the intention of the amendments in this group. There is one amendment in the name of my noble friend Lady Pidgeon, Amendment 16, which the noble Lord, Lord…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, this has been a very interesting group of amendments to debate so far, and I am very taken by the latest thoughts from the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, on playing around…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillGoing back to the contracts that are performing well, what is the Minister’s view on emergency situations, such as the recurrence of Covid and lockdowns? Would an existing…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, as a Great Western passenger, I wish I could speak as glowingly as my noble friend Lady Scott has done about Greater Anglia. GWR is known fondly to its passengers as…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, can I ask a question in reference to the fact that the Minister mentioned that there was no need to sort out terms and conditions now? What…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I am in the slightly unusual position of speaking to Conservative amendments that have not been spoken to already. However, I am sure the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, will…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, this small group of amendments addresses a number of issues that inevitably raise questions, because this very tightly drawn Bill provides no hint of how they are to be…21 Oct 2024HANSARDZero-emission Vehicle MandateMy Lords, I agree with the premise behind the Question about the 2030 date from the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, but does the Minister agree that we need new regulations on electric…17 Oct 2024