Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) critical importance of the freight and logistics sector to shops, households, assembly lines, hospitals - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) What steps he is taking to encourage the use of navigable waterways for freight traffic; and if he will - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) Department for Transport’s mode shift freight grant schemes in 2021-22 to support rail and water freight - Speech Link
3: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) measures the Minister has just outlined, has her Department given any thought to reintroducing the freight - Speech Link
4: George Eustice (CON - Camborne and Redruth) I can say that confidence in the industry is now higher, and it is gearing its logistics chains to make - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) I remember talking a few years ago to the logistics director of a big retailer, who said to me, “If we - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) There are parent and child groups, jobs clubs and almost every facility and service. - Speech Link
3: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) 12 months is that we have been living in a just-in-time world, so many businesses are finding higher freight - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) to be heading down that road. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Brock has been deployed, it has successfully managed to limit the effects of traffic disruption on freight - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) Also, how is the logistics industry informed that Operation Brock is active? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) I sat on a local road in Kent for hours. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) It basically organises all the freight movements going through Kent. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) We urgently need to see Ministers bring forward a road freight recovery plan, bringing together all interested - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) The Road to Logistics scheme that I mentioned actually takes into account ex-offenders as well. - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) as the road to logistics programme and adjusting drivers’ hours as well as those I announced to the - Speech Link
4: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) I also regularly meet the Road Haulage Association and Logistics UK, which are representative organisations - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) That is why I funded Road to Logistics, which the Road Haulage Association has been leading on. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) the Roads to Logistics scheme, encouraging ex-military leavers, ex-offenders and the long-term unemployed - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) What does the Minister think about the response of Logistics UK and other representatives of the sector - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) available to slightly subsidise the cost of rail freight and get that freight off the roads. - Speech Link
4: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Go and look at the A34 trunk road, see how many lorries are parked up with the driver inside and think - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) Rugby is an excellent location for logistics, being at the centre of England and at the crossroads of - Speech Link
2: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) If they do accept that, what action is the Secretary of State taking to bring forward a road freight - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) have a rail freight corridor between the Humber ports and the west coast. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Stephenson (CON - Pendle) We recognise the importance of rail freight, and of supporting all the newly announced freeports. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ben Bradley (CON - Mansfield) logistical centre of the UK, with its key geographical location and proximity to major road, rail and - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) It is absolutely essential that we get more people and freight travelling on our railways if we are to - Speech Link
3: Ruth Edwards (CON - Rushcliffe) It will also connect the east midlands via road and rail to the wider network of freeports across the - Speech Link
4: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) The freeport is a really great benefit for local manufacturing and logistics companies, and I am a big - Speech Link
5: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) Road transport is important as well. My hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) of America—without American logistics, without US air power and without American might. - Speech Link
2: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) relies a lot on regional government when we were going down that route, but I will not go down that road - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) to support Afghanistan, with a very small presence, on its road to a better future.Almost 70 years on - Speech Link
4: John Howell (CON - Henley) They have also carried 660,000 kg of freight. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) road transport altogether. - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) Gentleman’s enthusiasm for this agenda and his work on logistics and clean air. - Speech Link