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Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) deployment of statutory sick pay by ensuring that people could stay at home and not be spreading coronavirus - Speech Link
2: None Police Act 1996, section 9 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 or section 25 of the Railways - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
2nd reading - Sat 12 Apr 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (Lab - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) For railways, including the underground, power rail from British Steel is essential to the everyday operation - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) The Coronavirus Act 2020 did not have that—it missed all those defences—and look what happened to the - Speech Link
3: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) that privatisation has left Britain’s steel industry dangerously exposed.In the post-war period, railways - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) UK-forged steel built our railways, bridges and buildings. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
NHS Performance: Darzi Investigation - Mon 07 Oct 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) patient satisfaction in history, were ditched—a golden inheritance squandered.Fourthly, there was coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) I look forward to pushing for improvements to our railways, but we are a river community. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
E-scooters: Deaths and Serious Injuries - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) those available for public hire are available under the Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) on taxi safety standards, they have presided over a shocking decline in our bus services, and our railways - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 15 Mar 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None Act 1993 (c. 43) 13B The Railways Act 1993 is amended as follows.13C In section 25(1) (public sector - Speech Link
2: None after “combined authority”, in each place where it occurs, insert “or combined county authority”.Railways - Speech Link
3: None It is based on regulation 5 of the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I remind the Committee that the Coronavirus Act 2020 contained numerous measures which were intentionally - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) (a) the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019;(b) the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001;(c) section 8 of the Railways - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) What about workers in control functions on the railways, such as fleet managers, route managers and maintenance - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) During the passage of the Coronavirus Act 2020 it was perfectly reasonable to have Henry VIII powers. - Speech Link
4: None Someone who is not involved in trade unions but is an expert on safety standards on the railways is the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 18 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Stevens (LAB - Cardiff Central) will put Welsh and UK steel at the heart of our wider industrial policy, building wind turbines, railways - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) I would have appreciated an answer about the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme as well.We - Speech Link
3: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) In Wales, a pay agreement has been reached but its own railways cannot function on strike days because - Speech Link
4: David T C Davies (CON - Monmouth) Lady ask what I was going to do to get railways up and running again, but I am not certain which ones - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Preparing for Extreme Risks (RARPC Report) - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (CON - Life peer) Okay, we thought that it would be a flu pandemic, but we were told that, if it were a coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) arguably why the UK was better prepared for repeats of a flu or swine flu pandemic than for a SARS coronavirus-type - Speech Link
3: Lord Mair (CB - Life peer) particularly applicable to nuclear power stations, dams, flood defences, water and gas pipelines, railways - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Royal Mail and the Universal Service Obligation - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Zarah Sultana (LAB - Coventry South) Strikes are disruptive, just as they are on the railways or in the NHS. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) is true that the business has faced increasing pressures over the last few years, not least the coronavirus - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Southeastern Railway Timetable Changes - Tue 06 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) what we are witnessing is the implementation of plans drawn up long before anyone had heard of coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) The Minister himself has spoken of the need to instil“confidence in our railways”.The reality is that - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Travel habits have changed and there is a need to make our railways more financially sustainable, as - Speech Link