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HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will respond to the contribution from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, who made a similar speech—in fact, almost exactly the same speech—in Committee. If you are on…02 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham City CouncilMy Lords, will my noble friend acknowledge that the seeds of this dispute were sown during the period when the Conservative and Liberal party coalition ran the city of Birmingham?…01 Apr 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, said that he deplored the fact that the £2 bus fare had been increased to £3. This is, even for…26 Mar 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not think I will offend too many people if I say that no one could object to this amendment. Fares play an important role, but I do not think we should…13 Feb 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is impossible to disagree with the amendment that the Committee is discussing. We have heard the usual comprehensive proposals from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon.…13 Feb 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I respectfully point out that Manchester is scarcely a rural area, and the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, specifies rural areas. It might be a bit more difficult…13 Feb 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I am not sure who is giving way to whom at the present time. I will come to the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, in a moment or two, because I would be fascinated to hear his summing up…13 Feb 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Well, life is not fair. These are the realities of running bus services. I just remind the noble Baroness who accuses me of not being fair that I used to chair a major bus…13 Feb 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]If I may intervene on my noble friend on that point, the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, painted a picture of small local authorities taking on routes that the major operators do…28 Jan 2025HANSARDRailway ElectrificationMy Lords, does the Minister recollect that more than 40 years ago, Sir Peter Parker, the then chairman of British Rail, recommended a rolling programme of railway electrification…22 Jan 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. Can he tell us all the great advantages to the bus industry brought about under the last Conservative Government? Can he give the…08 Jan 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I join the tributes paid earlier to Baroness Randerson, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on transport. As someone who has taken an interest in transport matters for…08 Jan 2025HANSARDOld Oak Common: Train DisruptionMy Lords, given the Government’s sensible decision to restore Euston as the terminus of HS2, is Old Oak Common really necessary given the fact that a lot less passenger…08 Jan 2025HANSARDHousing Supply and HomelessnessMy Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Warwick on tabling this debate and on her speech, which was so relevant and comprehensive that I feared there would be nothing…05 Dec 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and I congratulate him on another polished speech. It ought to be well polished—he has made it at least…20 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillThat is absolute nonsense. This Bill is designed to implement a body, as a result of an inquiry into the railway system set up by the party opposite. Indeed, that party was so…20 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I am neither giggling, nor am I in a corner. I find the noble Lord’s contribution to be as specious and inaccurate as most of the contributions he has made during the…20 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillIf the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, who I have clashed with a couple of times in this Chamber, wishes to intervene, he should indicate and of course I will give way to him. It…20 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillAnd perhaps learned; that is another point. The fact is that these are delaying tactics by the party opposite. I am amazed that the Liberal Party should want to be associated with…20 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords—20 Nov 2024