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HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyMy Lords, the Government are extremely ambitious in this area. We are not even bothering about hybrids—we are going straight for zero-emission vehicles. As part of the £3 billion…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyI accept my noble friend’s point, and we have had some good conversations about this in the past. I encourage him to wait for the transport decarbonisation plan; I suspect there…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyA low-traffic neighbourhood cannot be introduced without consultation. Indeed, the Secretary of State specifically asked for the guidance to be rewritten very recently to ensure…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyThe noble Baroness highlights one of the key challenges in charging electric vehicles. It is why we have announced that we are investing £1.3 billion to accelerate the rollout of…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyInternational maritime emissions do indeed need to be considered. As I think the noble Lord knows, we will include international shipping emissions in our carbon targets going…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyMy noble friend raises my very favourite topic, but I reassure him that it is neither my nor the Government’s decision whether to reopen the bridge. It is the decision of the…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionMy Lords, I am pleased to say that, following the introduction of comprehensive daily testing regimes, LNER is able to run substantially all of its pre-planned timetable and GWR…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionI reassure my noble friend that of course Hitachi has the experience to undertake these repairs. It comes with a good track record of safety and a high-quality engineering…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionI commit to the noble Lord that the ORR will produce a report on the safety lessons from this incident and on how passengers have been impacted.19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionI absolutely agree with the noble Lord. GWR is operating an amended timetable, and passengers need certainty nowadays, so that they can plan when to travel. GWR has every…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionI am greatly relieved that my noble friend had a reasonable journey to London this week; I do not think I could have coped with another bad journey. I reassure him that LNER’s…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionI am not aware that we have made an assessment of journey times but, given that the timetables are pretty much back to normal, albeit with fewer services, I expect that the…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionUnfortunately, I cannot confirm that at the moment, because the forward repair plan is still in development. It may help noble Lords to understand that the fix is straightforward;…19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionThere may be a case for improving capacity and for looking at the way that trains are operated in this country. It will not be many more sleeps before the rail review is published.19 May 2021HANSARDHitachi Rail: Rail Travel DisruptionAs my noble friend may be aware, the Government are essentially taking on all the revenues and costs for the train network as a whole, currently. Under the ERMA arrangements that…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyMy noble friend is right that we really must look at these plug-in hybrids and make sure that they do what they say on the tin. On ending the sale of diesel cars and vans in 2030,…19 May 2021HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation StrategyMy Lords, we are working hard to finalise our bold and ambitious plan to decarbonise transport and expect to publish it shortly. We need to go further and faster to tackle…19 May 2021HANSARDRailway Industry Association ReportMy Lords, the Government welcome this report and agree that further electrification is required to decarbonise the railway, alongside the deployment of hydrogen and battery trains…18 May 2021HANSARDRailway Industry Association ReportI agree, and I refer the noble Lord to the answer to my noble friend’s question just now. But I also point out that this is not just about electricity and electrification; there…18 May 2021HANSARDRailway Industry Association ReportThe Government’s plans for decarbonising all forms of transport will be set out in the transport decarbonisation plan, which will be published shortly, but the noble Lord is quite…18 May 2021