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HANSARDNorthern Ireland and Great Britain: Regional ConnectivityMy Lords, connectivity between Northern Ireland and Great Britain is currently very strong and has largely recovered to 2019 levels. This includes several competing services…13 Mar 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2023I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, for standing in for the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe. I bumped into him earlier; all I will say is that he looked very dapper, so I…06 Mar 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2023My Lords, these draft regulations were laid before Parliament on 31 January and will be made under powers conferred by the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021,…06 Mar 2023HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2023.06 Mar 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandThat is part of the complex web. The Government want to invest billions of pounds in rail infrastructure for the north. However, if we are unable to operate the services as the…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandMy Lords, Ministers recognise that the current service provision is far below the standard that passengers rightly expect. The Government constantly review operators’ performance,…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandI am not entirely sure that the picture is quite as the noble Baroness has set out. There is not necessarily a misuse of P-codes; the issue is that there has to be a point in the…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandI am grateful to the noble Lord for reminding me of that. I will go and give the Rail Minister a bit of a kick and see if we can get him on his way.27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandMy Lords, I went to Liverpool the Friday before last; I got there on time and I returned on time. There are journeys across the country, and across the north, that work on time…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandI am not sure about the subsidies to which the noble Lord refers. There are complex contractual arrangements around what Avanti is entitled to, and the Government make sure that…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandThere are all sorts of reasons and criteria as to why one train operating company runs better than another. Often, it can be due to engineering works—if you are upgrading a main…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandI cannot possibly respond to those reports, but all options remain on the table with regard to all the different contracts as they come up for renewal. There are very well set out…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandI think I have mentioned at the Dispatch Box many times that the Bill for rail reform will be introduced when parliamentary time allows. It is worth pointing out that an awful lot…27 Feb 2023HANSARDTrain Services: North of EnglandThere are many things that the Government are doing, because not all train operating companies in the north are the same; they all have slightly different challenges and some have…27 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsIt will be possible to purchase a physical ticket in the vast majority of cases, but I do not know about every single mainline station, as there are many hundreds of them. We have…08 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsWell, I do not think that anybody would say that that is acceptable and that is why we are actually doing things about it. Part of the reforms we want to introduce is to have…08 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsI am appalled at the circumstances the noble Baroness faces. The system is in place but clearly is not working, and that is what we have to fix. We have to go through every…08 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsThe noble Lord makes an important point. Many factors feed into the accessibility of our rail network, and that is why in the Plan for Rail we committed to a national rail…08 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsMy Lords, such cynicism! I will certainly take that away and establish why it might be the case, but my noble friend makes a very important point: our fares are too complicated…08 Feb 2023HANSARDRailways: Driver-Only Operated TrainsMy Lords, the Government regularly receive ideas and feedback from the public and passenger bodies, including the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. The proposed…08 Feb 2023