Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) The Government said that Great British Railways would produce a 30-year plan to electrify the railways - Speech Link
2: Stephen Hammond (CON - Wimbledon) In setting the control period for the railways—I have to confess that in my short period as a Transport - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Contractors and subcontractors are finding it harder and harder to recruit the skilled workers they need - Speech Link
4: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) We will transform our railways, including HS2 to Manchester, East West Rail and the Northern Powerhouse - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) working with the transport industry to create high-quality apprenticeships so that the sector has the skilled - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) We need more skilled individuals to deliver that infrastructure. - Speech Link
3: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) What recent steps he has taken to reform the railways. - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) In February this year I set out our commitment to reforming the railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) support the continuation of the whole system, as noble Lords have mentioned, rather like we have on the railways - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) taxi routes are lengthened and more costly for the disabled and the elderly getting to GPs, and care workers - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Highly skilled larger areas with devolution deals can get their long-term settlements but, until we have - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) households in the cost of living crisis, including increased public spending to ensure public sector workers - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) internationally, but with EU structural funding coming to an end, they face the loss of more than 1,000 skilled - Speech Link
3: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) innovation, research and development, testing and verification for main-line passenger and freight railways - Speech Link
4: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Welsh universities face the loss of 1,000 skilled jobs from 60 projects focused on generating green growth - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) We have a plan for growth and for a high-skilled, high-wage economy. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) and productive workers. - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) The support for older workers is important because discrimination against older workers is very real—I - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) matters to my community in York.On hearing about Great British Nuclear, I think of the Great British Railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) rail innovation, research and development, testing and verification for mainline passenger and freight railways - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) What steps is the Secretary of State taking to reduce visa costs for skilled workers, incentivising them - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) care, and our new skills bootcamps are part of a dramatic rebooting of our skills system to support workers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) these volunteers could be deterred from taking part in what is already a demanding, onerous and very skilled - Speech Link
2: Lord Monks (LAB - Life peer) I have long experience of disputes in the transport sector, particularly in railways. - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) But many of the issues on the railways exist because the safety rules have built up over the years. - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (LAB - Life peer) They have real concerns about what it would mean for health and safety on the railways; you could run - Speech Link
5: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) At Second Reading, I used the example of cleaners going on strike on the railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) Most of the workers are very keen on providing minimum services; most workers do not like going on strike - Speech Link
2: None Thirdly, workers who prefer to strike and who refuse to serve as requisitioned workers for a minimum - Speech Link
3: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) Even in some of the disputes involving the railways, the next period of strikes has been postponed because - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Finally, without a permanent and skilled presence at the border, there is a significant risk to the security - Speech Link
5: None We have had a consultation only on ambulance workers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The new buses will be manufactured by Wrightbus in Ballymena, supporting hundreds of new high-skilled - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LDEM - North Shropshire) I welcome the restoring your railways scheme; North Shropshire has a great bid in for the Oswestry to - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) That new route is among the first in line for the next tranche of electrification on Scotland’s railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) Manufacturers are crying out for a shred of certainty, but far from supporting them and the 150,000 workers - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill aims to balance the ability of workers to take strike action - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) Hitachi has created 800 highly-skilled jobs in the region since that factory opened, and is also driving - Speech Link
4: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) was delighted to visit the Hitachi Rail manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, where 800 highly skilled - Speech Link
5: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) We have the best product being made by the best workers for everyone across the United Kingdom. - Speech Link