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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) I regularly meet Network Rail and train operators to encourage greater collaboration on day-to-day performance - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) What recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on the timeline for introducing bi-mode trains on - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) A monthly meeting is held with Network Rail and East Midlands Railway to discuss the introduction of - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) I hear all the right noises from the Department, but when I talk to Greater Anglia and Network Rail, - Speech Link
5: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Friend help me to continue to nudge Network Rail and others to progress this to completion in 2027? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
2nd reading - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) in many other cases: for example, P&O Ferries knowingly flouted the law to sack workers; water, rail - Speech Link
2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) postmasters balance their accounts, rather than operating as a black box, reporting accounts across the network - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Miners and Mining Communities - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Every village had a network of colliery clubs, parks, sports teams and welfare facilities vital to community - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) It is essential that rail connectivity is also improved; I am delighted that the reopening of Ferryhill - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (XB - Life peer) In correspondence, the Government set out that the local government finance settlement increased core - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) near a road with a loose drain cover that goes “clunk” every time a vehicle drives over it, near a rail - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) The majority of funding provided through the local government finance settlement is not ring-fenced. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Networks National Policy Statement - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) I was only told about this particular need for a debate quite recently by the Transport Action Network - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) The big polluters finance Tufton Street think tanks and social media bots, because they want to squeeze - Speech Link
3: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) The infrastructure—Network Rail—is to blame along the way as well. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) and strategic rail freight interchange projects in England. - Speech Link
5: None While the transition to net zero will bring changes to the way we travel, the road network will remain - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Governments have bailed out banks and energy companies and handed billions in subsidies to rail, oil, - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) The noble Earl, Lord Effingham, for example, said a number of things about school, diet and finance that - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) 637,000 families experiencing multiple disadvantages to make sustained improvements with their problems.A network - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Transport System: Failings - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) Rail usage has broadly doubled since privatisation, resulting in a much more congested network, and it - Speech Link
2: Lord McLoughlin (Con - Life peer) I was very pleased that he was appointed as chairman of Network Rail. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Vital to this is our ongoing work to upgrade the existing rail network, to improve rail operators’ performance - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) be sitting.Tuesday 7 May—General debate on defence.Wednesday 8 May—Consideration in Committee of the Finance - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Labour’s answer reduces competition further and is a return to the British Rail sandwich. The hon. - Speech Link
3: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) anti-money laundering regulations, particularly to make sure that Putin cannot use UK businesses to finance - Speech Link
4: Martin Vickers (Con - Cleethorpes) Friend referred to the rail network and was rightly critical of Labour’s latest proposals to make changes - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I thank him for his continuing campaign to ensure that his constituents can get better rail services - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Rail Manufacturing - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The railways transformed Britain, enabling all social classes to travel further, and the network was - Speech Link
2: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) network under a seabed. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) That is just one example of the billions leaking out of the system to private finance that could instead - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) is to continue to invest in rail across the entire network. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rail Manufacturing: Job Losses - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) specifying the tender pipeline that is to come, the Secretary of State has written to all the entities that finance - Speech Link
2: Jason McCartney (Con - Colne Valley) I thank the Rail Minister for the huge levels of rail investment going into my constituency. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) massive overcrowding because its stock is the oldest fleet, and it is desperate for more trains on the network - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) A lot of the finance I talked about and the orders that have been brought forward, which is why we have - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Secretary of State’s letter adds another angle: what we are doing there is writing to the ROSCOs to finance - Speech Link