Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) That truncated high-speed route will not just directly impact passengers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) As we meet today, the UK has 113 kilometres of high-speed rail. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) The nation that invented the railways has proved itself incapable of building a modern high-speed line - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) After the Prime Minister’s decision, we are left with a high-speed line with apparently no public funds - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The Stockton and Darlington railway was inaugurated in 1825 and was the world’s first passenger railway - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Rail is the key connector for passengers and freight in a cleaner, greener world. - Speech Link
3: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) I will give a brief example from my own line—the west coast main line. - Speech Link
4: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) Speed 1 and, in partnership with our French friends, built the first high-speed rail network under a - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Despite this, the order of 54 high-speed trains for phase 1 of High Speed 2 remains unchanged. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gareth Johnson (Con - Dartford) Well, where do we draw the line if we are going to increase the scrappage area? - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) Getting freight off our roads and on to our railways would be welcome, taking many heavy goods vehicles - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) limits, better public transport, and better options to get freight off our roads and on to our railways - Speech Link
4: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) very angry about this.My borough is one of the two in London without the tube, the docklands light railway - Speech Link
5: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) In Bristol, the clean air zone is barely 2 square miles—it is about 1 mile by 2 miles—and specifically - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) At the moment, the line is used only for freight, and I was told four years ago that the cost of upgrading - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) I am pleased to tell him that, following our decision to cancel the second phase of High Speed 2, we - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) High Speed 2, with its out-of-control costs, is compounding local misery, because it is now set to close - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) We made a commitment to take the money from the cancellation of the second phase of High Speed 2 to make - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Speed 2 is spent where HS2 would have been delivered. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) Stanton by Dale, Sandiacre, Risley and Long Eaton, but would greatly improve access for HGVs transporting freight - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) electrification and then phase 2 of High Speed 2, and refusing to invest in the Broadmarsh project to - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) I am married to an NHS doctor—is improving the efficiency of both the delivery of services and the speed - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I have argued time and again for investment in the south Wales main line. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) References have been made to the decision not to complete the northern leg of high speed 2. - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) Speed 2 in the north—based on my own constituency experience in Kent, where we have High Speed 1—is - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) who are unable to drive; boosting connectivity for rural communities across the country; transforming freight - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) and how we will tackle misleading marketing, with new offences for companies that seek to blur the line - Speech Link
3: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) also be part of an integral transport system where a self-driving vehicle may pick up people from a railway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Jones (Con - Clwyd West) Reducing emissions was used to justify the ludicrous 20 mph speed limit that now prevails across built-up - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) There simply does not appear to be the capacity to carry the traffic, yet this is a major railway line - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) carries the potential for faster journey times, higher frequency of travel, cheaper fares and more freight - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) They should pay the billions of pounds in High Speed 2 consequentials. - Speech Link
5: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) The living wage has gone up in line with inflation. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) articles 2 and 3 of the European convention on human rights. - Speech Link
2: Simon Baynes (Con - Clwyd South) In my border constituency of Clwyd South, Iusb think of the electrification of the north Wales main line - Speech Link
3: Chris Heaton-Harris (Con - Daventry) Speed 2 into ensuring good connections across our country. - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence has estimated that 80% of Northern Irish freight exports - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) network with cheaper fares and new and extended routes, funding to upgrade Kidsgrove and Stoke-on-Trent railway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) Birmingham was the best connected city to London anyway; it now has another railway line, but one that - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) the time we were assured that there would be a spur up the east coast and a spur up the west coast of high-speed - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) In fact, we are on to transport strategy 2, and we have the strategic transport projects review 2, which - Speech Link