Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) Does he accept that he will be the high-speed rail Minister who left behind slower trains and fewer seats - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Mode shift revenue support has always been given to rail freight, to move freight from road to rail, - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) The Cumbrian Coast railway is vital to the energy coast, for both passengers and freight. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) The cancellation of High Speed 2 phase 2a is an important topic for consideration, as is the transfer - Speech Link
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) I fully support the idea in principle and I still think that it is important that high-speed trains are - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) means that it is more likely that high-speed services will run through Stoke to Manchester, so it is - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) High-speed rail should modernise our railways, connect more of the country and increase capacity. - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Initial high speed services will start between 2029 and 2033, and will run between Old Oak Common in - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) They are not making speed; they are not forging ahead; they are not looking for opportunities in the - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, suggesting putting it on an old railway line. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) focusing our current intervention on areas where an accelerated pace of rollout is most needed, such as high-powered - Speech Link
4: None The DVSA is already responsible for licensing operators of passenger service vehicles and freight, and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) The importance of such funding cannot be overestimated in rural regions where car dependence is so high - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) I’m just following the 20 mph speed limit.” - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) fingers-crossed that the driver does not give up in Worcester.So while the Government are aiming to increase rail freight - Speech Link
4: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) in the country: the Northumberland line. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) to Manchester and the inability of high-speed rolling stock to tilt on the remaining west coast main - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) Data from the High-Speed Rail Group suggests that the Government’s fire sale of land on the former Birmingham - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) We see a lot of freight pedicabs going around these days, but they are excluded from the Bill in Clause - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) I cannot stress enough how hard she tried to get her Private Member’s Bill over the line, and she very - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) That was abandoned, but our railway system remains in desperate and urgent need of a complete overhaul - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) There has been less success in removing pedicabs from high footfall areas, stopping dangerous driving - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) In the event of an emergency, where changes must be introduced at speed and a forecast cannot be produced - Speech Link
2: Steve McCabe (Lab - Birmingham, Selly Oak) Instead, we have a Government who make us a laughing stock over their inability to build a modern railway - Speech Link
3: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) is the largest UK airport outside London, and it provides international and domestic passenger and freight - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) centre of Birmingham for years to come; all the disruption and delay of the works at Curzon Street for a high-speed - Speech Link
5: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) If George Washington and co had proceeded with their revolution at the same speed, there is a fair chance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Speed 2 beyond Birmingham. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stunell (LD - Life peer) of that with the boastful announcement last month that, in compensation for the cancellation of the high-speed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) not.The rail reform Bill says that it will “improve focus on customers through specific accessibility and freight - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) in the north of England was present, there was no mention of the electrification of the north Wales railway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) , high-capacity line, without interchanges, between Manchester and Bradford? - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) This Government have made the long-term decision to reinvest every penny of savings from High Speed 2 - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) We now know that High Speed 2 was billions of pounds over budget, Parliament may have been misled, and - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) - speed trains to Glasgow will go slower than the existing trains on that line? - Speech Link