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HANSARDRail Franchising System: ViabilityKeith Williams has been tasked by the Government with leading a root and branch review into the rail industry, and he has confirmed that he will recommend scrapping the current…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresAgain, the hon. Lady raises valid points on behalf of her constituents. I or perhaps another appropriate member of the ministerial team will be delighted to do that.12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresIt is absolutely true that there are huge numbers of delays and cancellations on our railway on a daily basis. That completely disrupts people going to work and kids going to…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresThe Secretary of State and I met the TransPennine leadership not so long ago to put the very points that my right hon. Friend has just made. As he knows, there has been quite a…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresWe are going to change the franchise model—the Williams review is absolutely going to change how our franchise model operates—but my hon. Friend will have to wait a bit longer to…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresI completely get where the hon. Gentleman is coming from, but he should understand that taxpayers already subsidise the rail network by more than £4 billion a year, meaning that…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresMy hon. Friend wisely highlights a proposal that will be considered among the bids for the Restoring Your Railway fund. I would be delighted to meet him to talk about it.12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresI thank the hon. Gentleman for his correspondence and the way that he has engaged with my Department over this issue. He has been representing his constituents on this matter very…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresI am sure the hon. Lady will look forward, as I do, to the issuing of the Williams review, which answers some of the questions she raises, but she should be careful what she…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresThe hon. Gentleman would probably like to know that 98p of every £1 paid in fares goes back into the railways, which allows investment in all the areas where he would like to see…12 Mar 2020HANSARDRail FaresFares are crucial to funding railway operations and our upgrade programme. We have frozen regulated rail fares in line with inflation for the seventh year running.12 Mar 2020HANSARD East Putney Station: Step-free AccessI thank the hon. Member for Putney (Fleur Anderson) for securing this debate on an important topic. She is a new Member and is certainly starting with a very good cause indeed on…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Sir David. I promise to be very, very good and stick to time. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for…05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesI completely hear what my right hon. Friend says, and I hope that I will get to address that point properly in a moment.05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesTime is quite tight. I would like to address in more detail what my right hon. Friend has said, but may I just say that if I do not cover all the issues she raised, I will write…05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: Maidenhead, Twyford and Branch LinesI will happily give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I give way first to my right hon. Friend.05 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: North-East EnglandI guess that is a question for the franchise to answer for itself, but I completely understand the right hon. Gentleman’s frustration, and that of his constituents who would like…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: North-East EnglandI thank the right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones) for securing this debate on rail services in the north-east and I thank all Members who have contributed to what has been…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: North-East EnglandI will happily look into how compensation is paid to TPE customers. I understand completely the right hon. Gentleman’s point about how poor the information to TPE customers has…04 Feb 2020HANSARD Rail Services: North-East England“Things can only get better” is the most new Labour thing the hon. Gentleman has ever said, but I completely understand the point he is making. In fact, it is very Kevin Costner:…04 Feb 2020