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HANSARDDrones: Consultation ResponseMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in the other place by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Transport. The Statement is…07 Jan 2019HANSARDDrones: Consultation ResponseMy Lords, I absolutely agree with the noble Lord that we have known about this risk and about drones for some time. We have obviously discussed the issue. But we have not been…07 Jan 2019HANSARDDrones: Consultation ResponseI thank my noble friend for her question and for the work she did on this. She is quite right that the European Commission has proposed a number of measures. We are working very…07 Jan 2019HANSARDTransport: Freight ServicesMy Lords, I reassure the noble Lord that the Secretary of State is absolutely across all the issues he has raised.07 Jan 2019HANSARDTransport: Freight ServicesI certainly agree with the noble Lord. Our railways are absolutely at capacity—we have seen a doubling of passengers—and we desperately need more space, which is what HS2 will…07 Jan 2019HANSARDTransport: Freight ServicesMy Lords, as I said, we absolutely are consulting Transport for the North on our funding, and we have committed that £2.9 billion to the trans-Pennine routes upgrade, which is the…07 Jan 2019HANSARDDrones: Consultation ResponseMy Lords, there was a huge amount of activity down at Gatwick not only from the Civil Service but from the police, the military and the Home Office, as noble Lords would expect in…07 Jan 2019HANSARDDrones: Consultation ResponseI can assure the noble Lord that I have certainly done my homework on this. As I explained before, there were nets and helicopters available, but the way that the drone was being…07 Jan 2019