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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of seafarer welfare standards on P&O Ferries’ - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) Agency periodically inspects vessels that enter UK ports to assess their compliance with international standards - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) The P&O seafarers were UK-based workers, but because P&O Ferries had flagged its ships out to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) We are also making a one-off adjustment to rates of air passenger duty on non-economy flights only, to - Speech Link
2: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) Living standards have fallen in Germany and in Italy in the last few years. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) in the traditional range of the Lib Dems, so I am going to refer to our public services being like ships - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) The level of tax is high by UK standards but still a lot lower than our European neighbours. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Gentleman is right to put the safety of ships and seafarers at the centre of the issue, as we and the - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) Those standards are being undercut by the Government’s deregulation of taxi standards, and nothing the - Speech Link
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) bus sector in England outside London lost 15,000 workers and had around 600 million fewer annual bus passenger - Speech Link
4: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) The number of local bus passenger journeys in England increased by half a billion—that is 19%—in the - Speech Link
5: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) What assessment he has made of the impact of the rise in rail fares on passenger numbers since 2010. - Speech Link


Written Statements
International Maritime Law - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) The substantive changes to the IGF Code apply only to ships constructed on or after 1 January 2024. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) midland main line, a new station at Cambridge South, improvements at Ely and Horley junctions to increase passenger - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Utility companies already have legal duties to ensure that their works and reinstatements are to required standards - Speech Link
3: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) unprecedented investment in UK technologies, with visionary policy and regulatory frameworks that limit ships - Speech Link
4: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) Airports are worried about potential delays if the passenger scanners are introduced in one go for every - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (Lab - Life peer) by two years.Subsequently, from 2025, UK-flagged passenger ships, wherever they are located, and passenger - Speech Link
3: None The noble Lord, Lord Greenway, raised the point about passenger ships, and these regulations apply only - Speech Link
4: None The requirements do not need to apply to non-passenger ships, as operators can make their own appropriate - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bradshaw (LD - Life peer) If this route were being managed by a guiding mind, the demand would be forecast to be 12 passenger trains - Speech Link
2: Lord Razzall (LD - Life peer) I fear that is us—and that the noble Lord, Lord West, who is not in his place, will never get the ships - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) and whose expertise has been ignored for far too long.Despite this negative background, growth and passenger - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) We must use this opportunity to drive up standards in other countries and not allow our standards to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fishing Industry - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (CON - Totnes) This is not about lowering standards or looking at how we can put people’s health at risk. - Speech Link
2: Richard Foord (LDEM - Tiverton and Honiton) However, I agree with him that the standards that apply to EU vessels fishing in UK waters must also - Speech Link
3: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) never go over the horizon, yet they are required to pass tests required of those on offshore large ships - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) ML5 was far too strict and detailed, and that it was easier to pass a medical to drive an HGV or a 52-passenger - Speech Link
5: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) Moreover, our fishers are being held by UK regulators to much higher standards than their competitors - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (LAB - Life peer) These duties go significantly beyond the existing duties on captains of aircrafts and ships in the Immigration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (CON - Life peer) The fact that they are members of the Commonwealth which upholds, or seeks to uphold, barest basic standards - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) One is that it gives inordinate powers to the Secretary of State to requisition not just ships, boats - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) example, to detain and even restrain someone the Home Secretary is seeking to remove from the UK on passenger - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) If this went through, I can imagine how workers on planes, ships and other forms of transport would react - Speech Link