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HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, with the leave of your Lordships’ House, I may speak for slightly longer than would be normal because I would like to address a comment made by the noble Baroness, Lady…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, in the course of debate at Second Reading and in Committee, numerous noble Lords drew attention to the fact that the manner in which the Government are approaching the…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 13 and 17 in my name, but also to respond to my noble friend Lord Lansley in relation to Amendment 3. We come now to the heart of a…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, if I may respond to what the Minister said, he is asking us to make a huge bet on what he refers to as the benefits of public ownership. Most of us who are of a certain…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillAre not the staff of Waterloo station already employed by Network Rail?06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Young sought throughout Committee, with great forensic precision and courtesy, to get answers to the sort of questions he has been raising today,…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I rise with some humility to make a few comments on Amendment 8, which, of course, is one where the noble Baronesses, Lady Brinton and Lady Grey-Thompson, bring an…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Lansley for posing those very interesting questions. I am sure that the Government have answers to them, but they illustrate…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I will speak to the amendments in this group, particularly Amendment 12 standing in my name. I have a great deal of sympathy with the amendment moved by the noble…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, the noble Lord brings me to exactly my point. The benefits of public ownership that the noble Lord was able to refer to were, first, that it is popular and, secondly,…06 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI am only trying to move an amendment.06 Nov 2024HANSARDRenewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024May I briefly ask the Minister something? There seem to be two guarantees going on here. Might the Minister be able to inform your Lordships about how they will interact? One is a…05 Nov 2024HANSARDFranchising Schemes (Franchising Authorities) (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, we recently had a Statement in the other place given by the Secretary of State on bus franchising. My understanding is that this instrument gives effect to that…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for arranging a briefing with officials so that I could better understand this complex proposal. The briefing was indeed helpful and I…05 Nov 2024HANSARDMV “Ruby”: Ammonium NitrateMy Lords, I agree with the tone of what the Minister has said about not spreading alarm unnecessarily, but can he say what actions the port authority has taken to engage with…31 Oct 2024HANSARDVehicle Emissions Trading Schemes (Amendment) Order 2024My Lords, talking of strange verbs, I was always struck, when I was involved with Transport for London, that on London Underground there is the verb “to non-stop”, as in, “This…29 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I will briefly deal with two points. In answer to the very reasonable question from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, the reason for a separate London debate is the…29 Oct 2024