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HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillIn response, I say only that seven would be a fantastically tiny number compared to the number of internal boards, committees, liaison bodies and so forth that Great British…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham said that he thought that the Government’s determination to trammel itself in the way that Clause 2 does was ideologically driven—a…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI will not pursue the question of “reasonably” at this stage, but I was struck by the Minister saying that the Bill should not trammel the Secretary of State’s power in relation…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I come away from each of the Minister’s responses slightly more baffled and frustrated than I was before. Let us try and get clear what I think he is saying. This in…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI have not said that a move to public operation would reduce investment, nor have I argued it either here or anywhere else. The question put by the amendment is quite different to…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I think we are getting to the point where every question has the same answer, which is essentially either, “It is in the manifesto”, or “We’re going to tell you about it…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI note that the Minister has not been able to give that commitment. With that, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, will the Minister state at the Dispatch Box not that there should be a public consultation in the event of a material reduction of services on transfer of a contract but…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I start by apologising to the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, if I caused any confusion; I will try to do better. I welcome the noble Lord, Lord Hendy, back to his place…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillIn speaking to these amendments, I say first that I thought the speech just made by the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, was extremely sensible and contained a great deal with which…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I begin by speaking briefly to Amendment 30, standing in my name, which proposes the deletion of the word “reasonably” from Clause 2, line 29. At this point in the Bill,…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillIf the noble Lord will forgive me, I am asking the questions in this scenario, and I do not feel I necessarily have an answer to his question about wartime. I might pass it on to…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillI am not quite yet the Minister, but the way the Labour Party is going, who knows?21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillThe noble Lord puts the Government’s case very well. How much the House has lost in not seeing him on the Front Bench as the Minister, given that he was the shadow Minister up…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillSo is it Great British Railways that will be doing it, like TfL, and not the Department for Transport? I am very confused.21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I am clutching my copy of the Williams rail review in my hands. I think I am going to refer to page 55 at another stage—my eyesight is not good enough to give the quote…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 7 and 9, which together constitute this group. Both are concerned with what the Government say they intend to be the effect of the Bill: the…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I shall speak first to Amendment 40, concerning the British Transport Police, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon. I associate myself with everything she has…21 Oct 2024