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Written Statements
Ship Safety: Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2 - Thu 12 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) I have today published as a draft the Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 11 May 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Despite the enormous benefits of privatisation which saw the doubling of passenger numbers and the quadrupling - Speech Link
2: Lord Mountevans (CB - Excepted Hereditary) potential for government and private investment to co-invest to bring electricity to ports so that ships - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Freight also needs better access to existing capacity, including a shift from passenger to freight where - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
P&O Ferries - Mon 28 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) seven of P&O’s eight ferries are now stuck in port, and on Saturday the European Causeway—the only passenger - Speech Link
2: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) He went on to compound the situation by showing scant regard for safety measures on his ships, resulting - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) is that DP World and P&O Ferries were prepared to put untrained crew and passengers on to those ships - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) It inspects all those ships and if they are not safe to sail, they will not sail. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
P&O Ferries and Employment Rights - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) If they are not, these ships will not sail. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) ships can operate safely at all times.Under the Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (LAB - Leeds East) to chuck workers off their ships? - Speech Link


Written Statements
Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendmen - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) passenger ships carried out by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in conjunction with the Domestic Passenger - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 17 Mar 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) The levelling-up White Paper promises to bring local public transport connectivity closer to London standards - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) consulting on guidance to licensing authorities on how they might best achieve that, while maintaining high standards - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) I can reveal that 10 Russian-linked ships have been turned away or redirected on their course, and eight - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Tue 01 Feb 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) So the safe ways must be via ferries, or cargo or passenger ships coming from longer distances away. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Our view is that these standards provide adequate discretion to take into account particular facts of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) This duty forms part of the standards of professional behaviour set out in Schedule 2 to the Police ( - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) They are two different duties and the obligation to comply with charters and standards is very different - Speech Link
3: None by them for a prohibited object;(b) to stop any vehicle and search the vehicle, its driver and any passenger - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Isles of Scilly: Ships - Tue 23 Nov 2021
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, I declare an interest in that I like ships. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) Will those standards also be imposed on onshore infrastructure servicing not just these ships but the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Yes, the Government are keen to uphold the highest environmental standards. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) It is also the case that, to fund that maintenance, passenger fares go up and demand therefore goes down - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) As the House knows, that is a luxury by today’s standards. - Speech Link
2: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) Well, unlike Nelson, the Prime Minister sees ships everywhere—preferably French ones. - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) Now the coal has long gone, disappearing on railway wagons down to the east or off on ships to all parts - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) buy quite a few things, but most importantly it will buy the capability to be able to lift 240-tonne ships - Speech Link