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Commons Chamber
Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords] - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) Britain’s maritime industry is respected around the world for its professionalism and high standards. - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) What was originally planned as a limited transport striking law designed to prevent railway strikes seems - Speech Link
3: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) It is a different model because we are talking about unaccompanied roll-on roll-off freight. - Speech Link
4: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) formed a part felt extremely strongly about it, so we worked at great speed - Speech Link
5: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) took us down a Netflix line for a while. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
West Coast Main Line: Services - Thu 15 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) It was the speed of rail transportation that maintained Holyhead’s route as an important port and town - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) What opportunities for developing freight and pushing a modal shift from road to rail are being lost - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) About 16% of freight trains are still diesel because not enough of the network has been electrified, - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) operating companies.That brings us on to suspect No. 2: TransPennine Express. - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) For example, on completion of High Speed 2 phase 2a, new HS2 trains will join the existing west coast - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) MPs across the east of England because it would increase capacity by 30%, enabling more passenger and freight - Speech Link
2: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) Previous Ministers for rail have been up to the National Memorial Arboretum to see the existing freight - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LDEM - North Shropshire) People who cannot drive in those towns are unable to access not only their high street, but hospital - Speech Link
4: Katherine Fletcher (CON - South Ribble) We know that inappropriate speed is particularly significant, and speed limits are one tool to address - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Insecurity in Developing Countries due to Blockade of Ukrainian Ports - Thu 21 Jul 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Putin’s deluded idea that these brave people would now line the streets with flowers, cheering the new - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Zero-emission Buses - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) Apart from one or two examples such as the docklands light railway, the majority of trains still have - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (CON - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Getting that right will help speed the deployment of the vehicles. - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) and in some cases more than £2 in Greater Manchester. - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) That is why we are funding hydrogen buses and also zero-emission road freight demonstrators, which are - Speech Link
5: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) her and her Department into understanding the importance of getting those orders on to the production line - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 30 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Caroline Ansell (CON - Eastbourne) In that light, what progress has been made with Network Rail’s proposals to extend high-speed services - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) Again, a strategic outline business plan for high-speed services from St Pancras to Eastbourne is in, - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) Speed 2 and the integrated rail plan. - Speech Link
4: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) As she says, a business case is going in to her Department in July to increase the line speed between - Speech Link
5: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Speed 2 and East West Rail. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) A combined statement from the Railway Industry Association, the Rail Freight Group, and the High Speed - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) When that case fell, it became all about speed—hence High Speed 2. - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (CON - Crewe and Nantwich) , the existing railway network, and the high-speed future of the railway. - Speech Link
4: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) Member for Tatton (Esther McVey) spoke eloquently in opposition to High Speed 2. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill: Committal
Committal (to a Select Committee)High Speed Rail (Crewe Manchester) Bill: Committal - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Yvonne Fovargue (LAB - Makerfield) speed railway between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and Manchester - Speech Link
2: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) speed railway between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and Manchester - Speech Link
3: Yvonne Fovargue (LAB - Makerfield) on the west coast main line compared with building a new railway. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stringer (LAB - Blackley and Broughton) Member for Buckingham (Greg Smith) made a strong case against the whole of high speed 2, which, again - Speech Link
5: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) for passengers and freight, and would maximise services that can travel at high speed between London - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rail Strikes - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) It is why we have got behind projects such as High Speed 2, the Elizabeth line and Northern Powerhouse - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) Has Cobra met to plan contingencies for the impact on the movement of freight, on schoolchildren missing - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) We have a situation where diesel is rising to £2 per litre, we have challenges at the airport and we - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Some Conservative Members and their comrades in Holyrood moved at lightning speed recently in their attempt - Speech Link
5: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) Friend the Member for High Peak (Robert Largan) and my right hon. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None The Committee will proceed to line-by-line consideration of the Bill on Tuesday 14 June at 9.25 am.Resolved - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) Whenever we have environmental protests or protests around High Speed 2 or other areas, there is a drain - Speech Link
3: None We will now hear oral evidence from John Groves, Chief Security and Resilience Officer at High Speed - Speech Link
4: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) They want to stop the railway. - Speech Link