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HANSARDVehicle Emissions Trading Schemes (Amendment) Order 2024If I were to take that question, this could be a very long intervention, so perhaps the noble Lord will forgive me if I move more directly to the instrument itself. As the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill29 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, a great deal was said earlier in Committee about the achievements of Transport for London in improving passenger rail services in London, predominantly through the…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 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, earlier in Committee we had a debate on the value of open access and I am not proposing to repeat that. But now that the noble Lord has drawn my attention to the…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, we have heard some very powerful and moving speeches, based on their own personal experience, from the noble Baronesses, Lady Brinton and Lady Grey-Thompson. I feel it…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I am not accustomed to making speeches on technological matters but, on this occasion, I feel I have some modest qualifications for doing so—although I must say in…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I start with a brief apology to the noble Lord, Lord Snape, for not having signed his amendment and assure him that if he wishes to approach me in the corridors between…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillThere is the basis of a grubby deal, I suppose, but I am sure it will be done on an equal, Dutch, shared basis. The Minister has heard what the Committee has had to say from every…23 Oct 2024HANSARDHS2: Purchased LandMy Lords, the Minister will know that since the cancellation of HS2, the mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have collaborated in commissioning and producing a…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, we come now to one of the most important debates in our consideration of this Bill in Committee: a group of amendments on devolution and the powers of local authorities,…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I understand that there has been agreement with the usual channels. I do not think that the matter is in my hands.23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, at this hour I would like to expand considerably on my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham’s remarks on his amendment, but I find there is nothing I can add, given how…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, once again I am being deflected more than answered. I did not suggest that existing open access operators were going to be closed down. In fact, it says quite explicitly…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I may have expressed myself very poorly when I presented these amendments, but I think it is fair to say—I do not mean to sound overcritical—that the Minister has…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I suspect that this will be one of the shorter debates in our consideration of this Bill in Committee, but it is one of the most important. It will be short, I suspect,…23 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I was going to come to a point relating to that. I am sure that what the noble Baroness said is absolutely correct in relation to automated vehicles but, like automated…23 Oct 2024