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HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendment 1.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendments 2 to 7.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I apologise to the House for my brief absence. In speaking to this Motion, I will speak also to the other amendments in this group and to Motions 1A, 8A, 8B and 29A. It is a…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendment 29.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendments 32 to 55.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to close this debate. I thank noble Lords for their contributions on the important topic of bus safety. To be clear, this Government…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendment 30.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]That this House do agree with the Commons on their Amendment 31.13 Oct 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving this Motion, I will speak also to the other amendments in this group and to Motions 30A and 31A. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, for his Motion 30A and…13 Oct 2025HANSARDHovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025That the draft Order laid before the House on 1 July be approved.18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThe noble and gallant Lord is right: there is a driver shortage. Most train operating companies do not have enough drivers to staff the service. Although one would like to measure…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThat is a very welcome sentiment, and I appreciate it. We are trying hard, as is the management of LNER, to get some rationalisation into this, and it is convenient for people.…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThe noble Lord has some background in this, because he was deputy chair of Transport for London and, I think, the Deputy Mayor for Transport. He knows perfectly well that, when we…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThe noble Lord was not an absolute failure in the job; he was brilliant, and he of course appointed a very competent chair of Network Rail in his time—for which I am grateful, but…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThe noble Baroness highlights that the number of discount cards has grown over the years. Some of them have different conditions from others, so it is quite hard to understand, if…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresI think the noble and learned Baroness is referring to the Salisbury to Exeter line, which has a long history. It was built cheaply to compete with Great Western Railway. The…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresI thank my noble friend. It is right that there is compensation. The rates vary and the system of paying it is complex; for example, if you have bought your ticket from a…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresThe noble Baroness is right that people are very uncertain about buying tickets and do not trust that they are getting the best value. The fares system has grown like Topsy over…18 Sept 2025HANSARDRail FaresMy Lords, the fragmented railway we inherited has a fares system that passengers neither understand nor trust. We are addressing this through delivering pay-as-you-go, with…18 Sept 2025HANSARDHovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, the purpose of this draft order is to amend the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 and thus to ensure that the full suite of maritime legal powers…10 Sept 2025