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HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Lord. We both need to have another discussion with Chris and his colleagues, as does the Minister, to make sure we can come up with something that works…14 Oct 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. I congratulate him on the work that he is doing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I support these…14 Oct 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]Before the Minister sits down, I have a very simple question to ask him. We have had a very interesting debate, and I have understood much of it, but who does the Crown Estate—and…14 Oct 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]My Lords, briefly, I support these amendments. I get involved, along with many other noble Lords, in offshore energy issues, particularly in Cornwall. I can see a time coming when…14 Oct 2024HANSARDCombat Air CapabilityMy Lords, reports from Ukraine indicate the importance of drones. What are the Government doing to increase the capability of drones and to add them to the needs of the future, so…10 Oct 2024HANSARDBus Fares: National CapMy Lords, will my noble friend try to ensure that, when a decision is made on what kind of bus subsidy we have, there is a long-term element to it? It is very difficult for bus…07 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Blake on a brilliant opening speech and on her long-lost work in Leeds and elsewhere to get better transport services there, and I…07 Oct 2024HANSARDPedal CyclesMy Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow the noble Lord in his description of all the things that are wrong with cycling and cyclists. He made some good points. But one has…12 Sept 2024HANSARDBus FranchisingMy Lords, I very much welcome my noble friend’s Statement, because it is about time that buses fulfilled their role of providing local transport for so many people. I worry about…12 Sept 2024HANSARDWatchdogs (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to take part in this debate and to congratulate my noble friend Lord Hollick and his committee on a most excellent report. I was not a member…09 Sept 2024HANSARDLocal Bus SectorMy Lords, in addition to the work that my noble friend is doing with buses, we will soon hear about the Great British Railways changes, with Ministers taking much greater control…09 Sept 2024HANSARDLocal Bus SectorTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to provide longer-term support to the local bus sector.09 Sept 2024HANSARDLocal Bus SectorI am grateful to my noble friend for that Answer. He has long experience in the bus industry. Would he look, in particular, at the problem of rural bus services, which on the…09 Sept 2024HANSARDLithium-ion Battery Safety Bill [HL]My noble friend has given the House a good list of the work that has been done recently to make the whole system safer, and I am hoping that the new Bill will do that, but have…06 Sept 2024HANSARDLithium-ion Battery Safety Bill [HL]My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, and to congratulate him on winning a place in the ballot and on his very interesting speech. I shall…06 Sept 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for his introduction to this Bill. I congratulate him. He has a challenge. He said that the Bill will bring the Crown Estate into…02 Sept 2024HANSARDLease Extension Policies for Residential PropertiesTo ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 24 May (HL Deb col 1368) where she relayed undertakings of the Crown, when they expect…30 Jul 2024HANSARDLease Extension Policies for Residential PropertiesI am grateful to my noble friend for that Answer. This was a Crown undertaking, given by the then Minister over two months ago. Hundreds of leaseholders on the Isles of Scilly and…30 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate my noble and learned friend Lord Hermer on his maiden speech, and to welcome him and my noble friend Lord Khan and his…23 Jul 2024HANSARDMail Carriage by RailMy Lords, it is only 20 years ago that Royal Mail built probably between 26 and 29 large and complicated sorting offices connected to rail and road so that mail could be sorted.…22 Jul 2024