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Lords Chamber
Network North - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) area capacity enhancement programme comprises a series of infrastructure upgrades to increase rail freight - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
HS2 Cancellation and Network North - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) route, with options to increase freight from Immingham and Felixstowe to Liverpool via the Potteries - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) is actually part of Network North, which recognises the fact that the port of Felixstowe is the primary - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) That will increase freight trains from 36 to 42 trains a day from the port of Felixstowe, allowing trains - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) new station at Cambridge South, improvements at Ely and Horley junctions to increase passenger and freight - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) business case sorted out, recognising how that could improve resilience not only for passengers, but for freight - Speech Link
3: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) That will take 150 million tonnes of freight off that line every year and is hugely welcome. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 26 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) no Government included in the business case for HS2 the economic value of additional passenger and freight - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) It is a superb project, which really delivers for freight and ensures that freight can travel from Felixstowe - Speech Link
3: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) bridges and to make the most of Anglesey freeport and of Holyhead, the second busiest roll-on roll-off port - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) On heavy goods vehicle road transport in particular, the start of the zero-emission road freight trials - Speech Link
5: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) Open access passenger and freight train operators have recovered faster since the pandemic, experience - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Green Energy: Ports - Wed 18 Oct 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) In the case of Felixstowe, investment in the Ely junction will make a significant difference by potentially - Speech Link
2: Douglas Chapman (SNP - Dunfermline and West Fife) The green port will feature a new freight terminal, offshore renewable manufacturing and green power - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Zero-emission Vehicles, Drivers and HS2 - Mon 16 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) One conversations I have already had was about the importance of making sure we are able to take freight - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Is the Secretary of State not concerned that freight that would have gone on to the railway will now - Speech Link
3: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) to the important port of Felixstowe. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) It will also benefit the midlands and the north by better connecting the busiest sea container port in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Renewable Energy in the East of England - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) Secondly, we have Freeport East at Felixstowe and Harwich, which can play a major role in decarbonising - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (CON - Beverley and Holderness) about hydrogen and the role of the east of England in being able to deliver it, not least in Bacton, Felixstowe - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Levelling-up Missions: East of England - Tue 31 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) work well under way on the Gull Wing bridge—the long-awaited and much-needed third crossing of the port - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) That will improve connectivity from the Felixstowe-Harwich freeport to the midlands and the north, thereby - Speech Link
3: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) That will create more passenger services for my constituency and support freight and Freeport East, delivering - Speech Link
4: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) England producing more than half of the UK’s offshore wind and power; exports and global trade, with Felixstowe - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Seafarers’ Wages Bill [HL] - Wed 20 Jul 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) Let us have a certification officer for port workers and let the port owners pay the levy to finance - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) There are also the freight ships that go across—most are ro-ro, but not all—between the UK and the near - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) of passenger ferry voyages would have been captured and 70% of non-passenger ferry voyages carrying freight - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future Hydrogen Economy - Tue 14 Jun 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) primary areas that I want to touch on today are hydrogen for heating our homes, in transportation and freight - Speech Link
2: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Justin Madders). - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) Those include the Freeport East project centred on Felixstowe and Harwich, which could see the early - Speech Link