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HANSARDRail Service ImprovementsMy right hon. Friend makes a great campaign point, which I hear. Mayor Andy Street met the Secretary of State for Transport this week. We are passionate to ensure that we can…19 Jan 2023HANSARDRail Fare EvasionFrom 23 January, the Government are increasing National Rail penalty fares for the first time since 2005. The penalty will change to £100, plus the price of the single fare to the…19 Jan 2023HANSARDRail Service ImprovementsThe most important thing for me is to make sure that the service is turned around. If the team at Avanti can turn that service around, then that will be a matter that we will look…19 Jan 2023HANSARDRail Service ImprovementsI am happy to write to my right hon. Friend on that matter. I am not sure whether he is referring to landslips and recent weather-related events, but Network Rail is working…19 Jan 2023HANSARDTrain Services: South GloucestershireI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thornbury and Yate (Luke Hall) on securing this important debate on train services in South Gloucestershire and on his informative and…18 Jan 2023HANSARDTrain Services: South GloucestershireMy hon. Friend is kind. The thanks should go to him; I am sure that his constituents will recognise that. He is a dogged campaigner, and I know that he will ensure that my feet…18 Jan 2023HANSARD Pokesdown Railway StationI thought that might elicit an intervention. I will happily take it.11 Jan 2023HANSARD Pokesdown Railway StationI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood) on securing this debate on improvements at Pokesdown station. I have listened to all he has had to…11 Jan 2023HANSARD Pokesdown Railway StationMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I listened in some detail to his point that this started with a request that lifts be working, then all of a sudden a lot more money…11 Jan 2023HANSARDLuton FlightpathsI thank my hon. Friend for that point; he has made interesting points as the debate has evolved. I have some knowledge of the issue, in the sense that my constituency is…09 Jan 2023HANSARDLuton FlightpathsI do not wish to make policy on the hoof from the Dispatch Box, but I am willing to meet all three of my hon. Friends to discuss the point from which this should apply. Perhaps we…09 Jan 2023HANSARDLuton FlightpathsIf I may, Mr Deputy Speaker, I will indeed give way.09 Jan 2023HANSARDLuton FlightpathsI am about to refer to the airspace modernisation changes, which touch on the impact of lower and deeper climbs. If that does not address my hon. Friend’s point, I will happily…09 Jan 2023HANSARDA47 Wansford to SuttonI have been asked by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to make this written ministerial statement. This statement concerns the application made under the Planning Act…09 Jan 2023HANSARDLuton FlightpathsI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Anthony Browne) on securing this debate on London Luton airport flightpaths. I thank my hon. Friends the Members…09 Jan 2023HANSARD Future of Rail ServicesI should make some progress, because time will push me towards the end. I shall try to take a further intervention if I can. I want to talk about other parts of the reform: fares…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Future of Rail ServicesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. It is also a great pleasure to be part of this debate, which was secured by my hon. Friend the Member for…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Future of Rail ServicesYes, we certainly will. We are looking at an interesting and challenging set of reforms. Ticket offices are largely unchanged from how they were 30 years back, but only 12% to 14%…20 Dec 2022HANSARD Future of Rail ServicesI agree with the hon. Lady, and I am aware that she applied for an urgent question on the matter. I will write to her. I call for all hon. and right hon. Members to come together…20 Dec 2022HANSARDWest Coast Main Line: ServicesI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn (Virginia Crosbie) for securing this important debate on rail transport services to the communities served by the west coast main…15 Dec 2022