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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

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


Commons Chamber
Infrastructure Procurement - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

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


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Transport

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


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

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


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

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


Commons Chamber
Rural Transport - Mon 08 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

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


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

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


Lords Chamber
Pedicabs (London) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 22 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

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


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

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


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) Speed 2 beyond Birmingham. - Speech Link