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Commons Chamber
Pedicabs (London) Bill [Lords]
Committee of the whole House - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Currently, taxis cannot charge per passenger; they charge per journey. - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) regulation… So I’m really excited to see this regulation coming in because I think it might help boost standards - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) public health issue.The Department for Transport has supported the development of low emission buses and taxis - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) the long-term objective that we want to ensure that all the vehicles on our roads reach safe emission standards - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) Vehicles that do not meet certain emissions standards and are not otherwise subject to a grace period - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) in outer London, with 95% of vehicles seen driving in London on an average day now meeting the ULEZ standards—up - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Automated Vehicles Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) moment—to having an advisory council of accessibility and disabled groups for public service vehicles and taxis - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) to stand part of the Bill.Schedule 6 agreed to.Clause 85Consent requirement for services resembling taxis - Speech Link
3: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) is part of the point I was making about being flexible, as we do not know how self-driving buses or taxis - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Automated Vehicles Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) The Law Commission, whose work feeds into all this, recommended three standards of safety, and we have - Speech Link
2: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) Member for Aberconwy will agree with me that we want the highest possible safety standards. - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Without those amendments, there is a risk that the safety standards for AVs will not be strong enough - Speech Link
4: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) I know we will come back to standards, European comparators and so on, so I will press on.Clause (2)( - Speech Link
5: Anthony Browne (Con - South Cambridgeshire) For a fleet of taxis of the type that Waymo has in America, the NUICO—the no-user-in-charge operator—will - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend, the teachers, the parents and everyone who has worked in his constituency to improve education standards - Speech Link
2: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) Applying the same standards, should not Labour return the tens of millions that it has received from - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) that occasion include the £30 million a year of new funding for enforcement agencies—including trading standards - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) without access to the rail network, leaving my constituents completely reliant on their own vehicles, taxis - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Cancer Care: South-East - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) the need to avoid public transport because of the risk of infection, the family were forced to hire taxis - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) collective determination to ensure that children right across the country receive the highest possible standards - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) higher living standards and lower bills under Labour. - Speech Link
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) We have had the biggest fall in living standards in our history. - Speech Link
3: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) towards ending the scourge of young people in my constituency with additional needs having to travel in taxis - Speech Link
4: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) Living standards have fallen off a cliff, and our public services are crumbling. - Speech Link
5: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) It is the only Parliament on record in which living standards have fallen. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) This is a new low for ministerial standards, so perhaps the Leader of the House can clarify a few things - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Some have dial-a-ride services, and others have tokens for taxis, depending on whether they are urban - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) Labour’s plan for a national care service with clear standards for providers and a new deal for staff - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) without private cars, the absence of regular bus services can mean an unaffordable £25 at least in taxis - 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) About 86% are made by cars, taxis and vans, but in the over 100 years since the invention of the car, - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) Those are operated as taxis, with no driver present, and the human is never expected to take control; - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) If we end up with autonomous taxis, how many of those drivers will remain in jobs 50 years from now? - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) We therefore need strong, fair and enforceable standards. - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Older and more vulnerable people are more reliant on taxis and private hire cars, a great benefit of - Speech Link