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HANSARDWest 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 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineThe department is well aware that there is some overcrowding on CrossCountry routes. We are considering options, with CrossCountry, on the size of its future fleet. This will be…19 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineOf course, there will be various elements that are set out in the contract and are a commercial matter. I felt that the noble Baroness did not give quite enough credit to Avanti…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 2023HANSARDHigh Speed 2I am not able to give an update on the physical work that is going on. My understanding is that the position at Euston has not changed. Again, that will be in the regular…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 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineI will happily write to the noble Lord and to all Members of the House with an interest in this to set out how the net advocacy scores are calculated. Unfortunately, I do not have…19 Sept 2023HANSARDPublic Charge Point Regulations 2023I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate on these regulations, which relate to electric vehicle charge points. I take seriously many of the issues…13 Sept 2023HANSARDPublic Charge Point Regulations 2023Again, it goes back to what we feel able to bring in at this time in terms of reliability. It will be something that we keep under review because we should be in a situation where…13 Sept 2023HANSARDPublic Charge Point Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023. Relevant document: 48th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee13 Sept 2023HANSARDPublic Charge Point Regulations 2023My Lords, the transition to zero-emission vehicles is vital to realising our net-zero ambitions. Cars and vans are the source of 68% of the UK’s domestic transport emissions. That…13 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureI am grateful to my noble friend for highlighting this issue, but I am afraid that I do not accept the premise that the two are comparable. There are elements in NATS’s current…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureI do not think that those two comparisons are quite correct. We have to deal with the situation we are in now, where there are already arrangements for NATS to be penalised…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureThere was not, because the miliary planners would not have been able to take over the system as quickly as NATS was able to. There are well-established contingency plans in NATS…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureAs the noble Baroness will be well aware, we retained EU 261, which became UK 261, which puts certain obligations on the airlines to provide information on rights, refunds or…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureMy Lords, the Government deeply regret the recent NATS operational failure and its impact on airlines and their customers. The incident is being investigated and lessons will be…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureAs I noted, and as I believe noble Lords will be aware, the preliminary report from NATS was submitted to the CAA yesterday. It was then transmitted to the Secretary of State, and…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureThe noble Lord raises a hypothetical—the outcome of this investigation —which I will probably not engage with at this moment. However, what I am very clear about, as is the…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureThe noble Lord raises an interesting point. As I said, when the investigations around this are completed and the reports are available, potential next steps will be considered,…05 Sept 2023HANSARDNational Air Traffic Services: Operational FailureI thank my noble friend for raising that, because I am enormously grateful for the work of our air traffic controllers; I have visited Swanwick and seen their work at first hand.…05 Sept 2023