Mentions:
1: Samantha Dixon (Lab - City of Chester) What steps he is taking to help improve the reliability of rail services for passengers. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) What steps he is taking to help improve the reliability of rail services for passengers. - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Contrast that with the passenger-in-chief approach of meddling with the railways and indeed of a resource-led - Speech Link
4: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) In the five years since the Government first admitted that reform of our railways was needed, passenger - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) privatisation—nationalisation would reverse this—passenger numbers have doubled, and £100 billion has been invested in the railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (Con - South Staffordshire) There are also more frequent services in Codsall and Bilbrook, which saw real growth in the number of passengers - Speech Link
2: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) buses back under public ownership, and that Labour has pledged to deliver the biggest overhaul to our railways - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Government’s watch.It is now widely accepted that the current bus funding system is not working, either for passengers - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) He is right on the Chase line electrification about the growth in passengers and more frequent services - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) Does he agree that, in the year 2024, it is almost perverse that passengers coming from the west of England - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) It was ranked as the second busiest airport in the world for international passengers in 2023, handling - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) That truncated high-speed route will not just directly impact passengers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) , published last year:“The railways’ capabilities are manifest when the management of the railways is - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) On the railways, it is interesting. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) Public transport works best where you have a concentration of passengers. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Reform is essential to deliver a better railway for passengers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) railways, but that declined as the motor car grew. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Britain’s modernised fleet of trains offers improved comfort and services to passengers across the country - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) The private sector has invested around £20 billion to transform our train fleets for passengers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) for the people of west Leyland is that a train comes along to Midge Hall station and stops, and the passengers - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) work he does in the same vein for his constituency.My Department prioritises investments in our roads, railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) Where is the promised guiding mind that will end the railways’ chaotic fragmentation? - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) Alstom order from the Government for extra trains on the Elizabeth line is, allegedly, to cope with more passengers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) How does the Minister believe Great British Railways and wider rail reform will help to smooth out the - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Thanks to the UK taxpayer, the Government have invested over £100 billion in the railways, and a lot - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) As has been mentioned, it is the home of the railways—200 years ago, the first train went on the line - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) between £9 billion and £11.5 billion in upgrading that route, which not only will make it better for rail passengers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) in the midlands and £1.4 billion extra in the north to support regional connectivity and growth.Our railways - Speech Link
2: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) opportunities that will follow from better transport connections.Britain is the country that gave the world the railways - Speech Link
3: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) Will he or a colleague write to me to update me on the problems experienced by passengers and to highlight - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) return to the railways. - Speech Link
2: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) If my noble friend the Minister is genuinely looking at improving customer experience on the railways - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Train operators are incentivised to deliver for passengers by earning a fee based on their performance - Speech Link
4: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) We are talking about contracts and railways, and, out of the hat, two days ago, Avanti has now decided - Speech Link