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HANSARDLocal Transport Authorities and Mayors: Financial SupportA number of options are outlined in the Bus Services (No. 2) Bill, which had its Second Reading in the other place yesterday, including franchising options, enhanced local bus…09 Jan 2025HANSARDLocal Transport Authorities and Mayors: Financial SupportThe Government stepped in to ensure that bus fares would not explode at the beginning of this year, when the £2 fare cap that the previous Government legislated for ran out. In…09 Jan 2025HANSARDLocal Transport Authorities and Mayors: Financial SupportI thank my hon. Friend for his kind words, and I assure him that the Government are committed to improving local transport across individual local authority boundaries. We have…09 Jan 2025HANSARDLocal Transport Authorities and Mayors: Financial SupportIn the Budget, the Government confirmed more than £1 billion of funding to support bus services, an additional £200 million for the city region sustainable transport settlements…09 Jan 2025HANSARDLocal Transport Authorities and Mayors: Financial SupportMay I start by saying it is very good to be here? I wish you, Mr Speaker, and the House staff a happy new year, and I wish the Aviation Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsUndoubtedly.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are working on a whole range of schemes in respect of the spending review, and I will provide the hon. Gentleman with more information as soon as I have it.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will certainly ask the Rail Minister to take that meeting.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes, I think I will have a busy diary coming up.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe spend about £2 billion a year on rail enhancement projects. We will be looking carefully through the spending review at all proposals that get freight off the roads and…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are exploring how we can extend pay-as-you-go to other stations in the south-east. I must admit that my mental map is not good enough to identify every station yet, but we…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is a doughty campaigner for her local area, and I fully endorse her efforts to get money to fix the broken roads in her constituency.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would be happy to meet my hon. Friend. I have already met a number of Members of Parliament in the Gateshead area about some of the recent problems with the flyover, and met the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would be happy to.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will. I know that my hon. Friend represents the proud railway city of York, as I represent the proud railway town of Swindon. I look forward to having that meeting with her.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI agree. We will not make the same mistakes when we take train operating companies into public ownership. We will do it properly. It is a massive undertaking, but we will make our…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe have had decades of chaos on the railways, and railways that simply did not work for people. What is needed is a fundamental reset with the trade unions to deliver improvements…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are six months in. The Conservative party had 14 years. Those promises are worth nothing without a plan to deliver.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe former Minister took to social media and apologised—09 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words. I remember those days on the London Councils transport and environment committee. I hope he does not mind my saying that…09 Jan 2025