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HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2023I do not believe that we will produce a report as a result of that meeting because, if we discuss performance, those meetings are very much ad hoc check-ins. We cover more…19 Sept 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2023My Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate and for welcoming the regulations in general. I will take a few minutes to go through some…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineActually, this is exactly what this contract is trying to achieve. By giving a three-year horizon for Avanti management to properly plan, it will not be necessary to micromanage…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2We are already building a high-speed railway. Phase 1 for HS2 is well under way. We expect services to commence by 2033. Before the noble Lord completely dismisses Old Oak Common,…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineI will certainly take that back to the department. I think the noble Lord will also be aware that Avanti made some timetable changes over the summer. They were very short-term and…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineAvanti, like all train operating companies, is working with its stakeholders and Transport Focus and London TravelWatch on the responses to the consultation to its proposals. The…19 Sept 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2023. Relevant document: 49th Report from Secondary…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2I am grateful to my noble friend for pointing out the enormous benefits that Birmingham is currently seeing. All across the route of phase 1, there are shovels in the ground, with…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNATS: StaffingThere are plenty of questions there for me to get my teeth into. I shall focus on staffing and staffing resilience at Gatwick in the tower. Two unrelated operational incidents…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNATS: StaffingThe issue that the noble Baroness raises will be covered when the CAA completes its review of the outage in upper airspace that NATS suffered recently. I will await the…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNATS: StaffingThe noble Lord conflates two of my favourite topics. As he knows, both those companies are privately run and can recruit as many people as they like. However, they suffer the same…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineMy Lords, with the leave of the House I shall now repeat the Answer to an Urgent Question in the other place given by my right honourable friend the Minister of State for…19 Sept 2023HANSARDNATS: StaffingMy Lords, the Government regret the delays caused by staffing issues in the Gatwick air traffic control tower last Thursday. UK airport air traffic control services are a…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2I am aware of my noble friend’s position on HS2. It demonstrates that there is a wide range of views. As I said earlier, the Government will update the House as part of their…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2Of course, a vast amount of analysis on HS2, and indeed on all infrastructure projects, goes on all the time. There are many elements in attracting investment to northern cities,…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineMany national rail contracts are already in place. Eventually, in due course, the Government would like to move to a different sort of passenger service contract. There is nothing…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2There has been an awful lot of media speculation and hypotheticals. As noble Lords will know, the Department for Transport, and indeed every single government department, will…19 Sept 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) (No. 2) Regulations 2023My Lords, these draft regulations were laid before Parliament on 18 July, and noble Lords will recall that similar regulations have been debated previously on a number of…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineAt the end of the day, we have to be able to balance the need to get the best contract and the need for parliamentary scrutiny with the need to protect some elements of contracts…19 Sept 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2The noble Lord makes a very interesting point. It is right—and this is not only for High Speed 2 but for many major infra- structure projects—that local interests can sometimes…19 Sept 2023