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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) New roads and railways make a kind of beeline for those open spaces, since they provide a green field - Speech Link
2: None high-quality skills training annually, driven by 80,000 more people completing courses in the lowest skilled - Speech Link
3: None We need those 80,000 low-skilled workers and those 200,000 people getting high-quality jobs, because - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) just rescued Litchurch Lane in Derby by a last-minute order for trains, to keep something like 1,500 skilled - 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 Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) He is a great expert on these matters.I will speak about railways. - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) It also means that rail workers will become public sector workers, and so their pay rises will need to - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The 750 skilled jobs at Hitachi, and about 1,500 jobs in the supply chain, are fundamental to the success - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) railways, but that declined as the motor car grew. - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) It has 750 highly skilled workers and supports 1,400 jobs in the wider supply chain—many in my Stockton - Speech Link
4: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) As a result, deadlines were missed, skilled workers have left for jobs elsewhere and supply chain companies - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) These are skilled, well-paying jobs of the type that we are continually told the UK is in the market - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) and preserve those vital jobs in areas such as County Durham, where we do not have an abundance of skilled - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton South) Hitachi provides opportunities and high-skilled jobs, benefiting people right across the north-east, - Speech Link
4: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) We are founded in railways, we want to be in railways, and we always will be in railways. - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) together to discuss how we jointly work together to make sure that our brilliant and long-held and highly skilled - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) Last Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of P&O Ferries illegally sacking 786 workers, but two - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) It has been three years since we were told that Great British Railways would happen. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The full delivery of HS2’s Eastern Leg is what the East Midlands needs to support and create highly skilled - Speech Link
5: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) It is the wrong move when we are trying to encourage more people on to the railways. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Fire and Rescue Services) (England) Regulations 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) By the exercise of that freedom the workers, through their union, have the power to convince an employer - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I have seen minimum strike levels—I think they are in the railways now, are they not? - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are striving to maintain a balance between the ability of workers to strike and the rights of the - Speech Link
4: None This responsibility makes it a highly skilled role. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) In the old days, rentiers and capitalists tended to face higher tax rates than workers, who received - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) to our economic decline is not privatisation, of the NHS or anything else; it is public ownership of railways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) One of the answers—beyond local buses, which desperately need investment—is railways. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Highly skilled migrants contribute highly to the UK’s tech sector: 49% of the UK’s fastest- growing businesses - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) And unprecedented levels of low-wage, low-skilled migration are damaging the economy. - Speech Link
2: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) We need to build more roads, some railways and some homes. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.As we approach the 200th anniversary of the railways - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) The workers and businesses will drive our growth. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Of course it would have been easy to fill vacancies with skilled people who want to do the jobs we have - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Because income tax applies to people above the age of 65, cutting it would also keep highly skilled and - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) In Suffolk Coastal we have a lot of seasonal workers. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Not only does such an influx of people drain our economy, displacing investment in domestic skilled work - Speech Link
5: Paul Bristow (Con - Peterborough) When I asked him for an example, he decided, curiously, to talk about the railways. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) is a growing global market, Britain’s share of which could be worth £42 billion and generate 38,000 skilled - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Bosch and ZF, among others, are investing in the UK, drawn by our highly skilled workforce. - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) From the way this Government have politicised the ongoing industrial dispute on our railways and Ministers - Speech Link
4: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) employment for their members and in ensuring that the economic benefits of new technologies are available to workers - Speech Link