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HANSARDTrain FaresI can get to my feet and commit the Government to simplifying rail fares in the very near term.30 Jan 2020HANSARDTrain FaresThe Government have frozen regulated rail fares in line with inflation for the seventh year in a row. In addition, we have already cut costs for thousands of young people with the…30 Jan 2020HANSARDRail InfrastructureThe Government are spending a huge amount of money on improving the infrastructure in the north. My hon. Friend will see lots of improvements in the Bradford area and the area he…30 Jan 2020HANSARDRail InfrastructureI welcome my hon. Friend to his seat. As a strong representative of Heywood and Middleton, he will be pleased to hear that we are very supportive of measures to improve public…30 Jan 2020HANSARDSoutheasternI very much agree with my hon. Friend. Yeah, why not?30 Jan 2020HANSARD North Cotswold LineThe hon. Lady makes a good point for her constituents. What she has just described is a point of controversy in the city. Hanborough serves as a vital link not only to Oxford, but…22 Jan 2020HANSARD North Cotswold LineI would absolutely love to have that honour. I hope my hon. Friend has the capacity to invite me and that I am not going to turn up and be shoved off a platform because someone…22 Jan 2020HANSARD North Cotswold LineI am sorry—I did not answer the point the hon. Gentleman made about Beeching in his speech. We have a £500 million fund. We are now setting out the rules for it. Obviously,…22 Jan 2020HANSARD North Cotswold LineYes, indeed. I am pleased to hear they have noted the difference, because, at the end of the day, these are relatively expensive vehicles, so it is nice to know that they are…22 Jan 2020HANSARD North Cotswold LineI shall have to remove a number of pages from my speech, Mr Stringer. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship—I shall obviously obey your indication from the Chair and…22 Jan 2020HANSARD High Speed 1: Rolling StockI guess my hon. Friend is slightly unlucky to have the Rail Minister in front of him; had the Minister of State for the future of transport responded to this debate, my hon.…21 Jan 2020HANSARD High Speed 1: Rolling StockIt is a pleasure, as always, Mr Hollobone, to serve under the chairmanship of my near neighbour. I hope that you will look kindly on me if I make any errors and inform me later,…21 Jan 2020HANSARD High Speed 1: Rolling StockThe White Paper will come out shortly. It had a good mention in the Queen’s Speech—it will be legislation and it will be the framework by which the problem he outlined for the…21 Jan 2020HANSARDColne to Skipton Railway LinkThe whole point of the pipeline is to try to do exactly that, and to learn from previous projects, when things are delivered late and run over cost and when things are delivered…29 Oct 2019HANSARDColne to Skipton Railway LinkMy word—I know when I am put in my place, Sir George. However, I was just making the point that my hon. Friend is one of the most mild-mannered men in this place, and he would…29 Oct 2019HANSARDColne to Skipton Railway LinkIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir George. Already you have chastised my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Andrew Jones), and for him to…29 Oct 2019HANSARDColne to Skipton Railway LinkEuropean procurement rules.29 Oct 2019HANSARDColne to Skipton Railway LinkI remind the hon. Lady that the MP at the time, who also campaigned, was from a different party, but that is not the point. I share the interest of the hon. Member for Hyndburn in…29 Oct 2019HANSARDNo-deal Brexit: AirportsI believe those arguments are entirely sustainable, and I am happy for the right hon. Gentleman to continue that conversation with the Prime Minister.24 Oct 2019HANSARDNo-deal Brexit: AirportsFlights between the UK and the EU will continue whatever the outcome of our EU exit. We are working with airports to ensure that freight can continue to flow and that any…24 Oct 2019