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HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsIt is certainly not legalisation by the back door. As noble Lords will know, there are many of these things on the streets and, sadly, on the pavements of towns and cities, where…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsMy noble friend makes a really good point. That is one of the subjects which the Employment Rights Bill seeks to remedy. I do not think that we can do it directly through road…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsI thank my noble friend for that question. On batteries, last October, the Department for Business and Trade launched the “Buy Safe, Be Safe” campaign to raise awareness of the…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsYour Lordships’ House will know that there have been several Questions on this subject in recent weeks, and certainly in one of them I referred the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon,…01 Apr 2025HANSARDE-scooters: TrialsThe last evaluation of the e-scooter trials took place in 2021, and the results were published in 2022, but, despite saying that they would, the last Government took no further…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksI will be very happy to write to the noble Baroness and tell her exactly what the position with lane rental is. It is complex and needs administration, but the intention is to…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksMy noble friend is quite right that it is very important to do them quickly. In recent years, the safety of highway maintenance workers has been much considered, because it has…01 Apr 2025HANSARDRHS Garden Wisley: RoadworksThe works on the M25 will continue until this autumn. I believe the works on the A3 will continue into 2026, and they have been delayed by bad weather. I am sure that, if the…01 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 35, tabled in my name, seeks to apply the local transport authority by-laws powers contained in the Bill to London. Clause 24 will enable local transport…26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I commend these amendments to the House.26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, this group covers data provisions. Before I speak to the amendments in my name, I note that there have been questions from stakeholders about releasing commercially…26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Amendment 20, as the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, said, seeks to prevent new local authority bus companies—I will not say LABCos; I cannot make that work—from being able to directly…26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 17A concerns the impact that the increase in employer national insurance contributions will have on socially necessary bus services, including those for…26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]26 Mar 2025