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HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)This is a probing new clause. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 7 Permitted driving time for drivers of PSVs being used under the…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)On a point of clarification, under subsection (1) of the new clause, could local transport authorities collaborate to conduct this kind of research? I worry that a single local…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)New clause 6 relates to the same issue of bus safety. It requires local transport authorities to collect and publish bus safety performance data online at minimum intervals of…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I do not. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 6 Bus safety performance data “In the Transport Act 2000, after section 144E (inserted…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)Would the Minister not agree that shorter consecutive hours and more flexible shift patterns might attract more people to consider bus driving as a potential career?03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I have tabled a number of new clauses relating to safety of working conditions, health and safety, and reporting of bus safety. I want to speak in detail to new clause 5, but I…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I support the speeches made by the hon. Members for Broadland and Fakenham and for North Norfolk, and I am exasperated that the clause is being rejected. I asked the Secretary of…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I thank the Minister for his response to my amendments 32 and 33, but I am quite disappointed. I take his points about potential downsides. I assume that, in outlining them, he…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)Is the hon. Gentleman taking into account the lifetime of a bus and the changes in running costs?03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I thought so—I am not as radical as the hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham thinks. I think that the amendment is entirely reasonable on bus availability and procurement. It…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)As I understand it—the Minister might want to intervene if I am not correct—proposed new subsection (3)(b) sets the condition that the bus is first registered “on or after a…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)Clause 37 is a good clause on the mandate for the use of zero emission buses in England. In essence, as it stands, it sets zero emission standards for new buses registered after a…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 32, in clause 37, page 40, line 23, leave out from “after” to “and” in line 24 and insert “1 January 2027,”. This amendment, along with Amendment 33, would…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I am very impressed with the clause; it adds good things to the Bill and it is appropriate that drivers are given good information and training on how to deal with crime and…03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It is on a point of clarification.03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way?03 Jul 2025HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)Let me clarify. Absolutely not: the hierarchy starts with people who are on foot or wheeling, and it moves down, via cycling, with motor vehicles at the bottom. I would like to…03 Jul 2025