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HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I turn to my noble friend Lord Woodley’s Amendment 41. I appreciate that the intention of his amendment is to ensure that the views of bus workers are considered when developing…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]These amendments cover provisions relating to zero-emission buses. Those tabled in my name—Amendments 46 to 49—amend Clause 30, which will prevent the use of new non-zero emission…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Noble Lords might like to note that I was driving a Leyland bus last Saturday on Route 19. The vehicle is older than I am. It makes a lot of noise but it does not go very fast. I…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, this final set of amendments covers a range of bus policy issues. I will first address Amendment 52,which would require the Secretary of State to conduct a review of the…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, as the Minister, I will turn to the amendments related to floating bus stops and accessibility. I thank noble Lords for their contributions on these important points. I…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]02 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksThis is a new version of doing travel information in the House. I believe that there is a closure in April. The noble Lord probably knows where Painshill is better than I do. Then…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksI will not go down the cones hotline route—that did not seem to be a tremendous success. That point is well made. It is a continued frustration for drivers of all sorts that…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksI am not sure whether the procedures are appropriate, but I will go away and get the department to look at them in order to see whether they are appropriate.01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksThat is an easy answer, is it not? It was the previous Government, not this one.01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksThe questions about compensation schemes are obviously about the wisdom and appropriate use of taxpayers’ money. I cannot answer for the design of the original scheme, because it…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksTo answer the last part of the question first, I would be delighted to meet the noble Baroness. It would be a pleasure to talk to her and the RHS. I talked this morning to my…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksMy Lords, the impact of the M25 junction 10 scheme on RHS Garden Wisley was considered from the project’s early stages in 2016. National Highways incorporated mitigation measures…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsThe noble Baroness makes an excellent point. I strongly sympathise, as she knows, with the difficulties that people with any sort of disability have boarding and alighting buses…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsIf the noble Lord is accurate, I must have been correct in what he reports I said, so I am sure that I did. I cannot immediately answer him on whether and to what extent there has…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsGosh—I do not much care to be lectured about drift by somebody who represents a party that did an experiment in 2021, published some results in 2022 and then did nothing. In any…01 Apr 2025