Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (CON - Welwyn Hatfield) We still have the grant for vans, for taxis and for other vehicles. - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Vehicle standards remain a reserved issue, so any changes legislated for by the UK Government will impact - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) The new Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Act, passed in May, is not relevant - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) wait to see the full impact of recent planning policy changes on the use of the optional technical standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) It has meant that people have to travel in taxis and cars, which is much more expensive, so it is a disaster - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) lifelong campaigners for road safety are extremely worried that in future our Government will accept lower standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) The reforms to education will spread opportunities and level up standards, ensuring that everyone can - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) We should not settle for less than world-class standards of teaching. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) reminded us that when the Disability Discrimination Bill of 1995 was in Committee, the Minister said that“taxis - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) for academies, yet remarkably manage not to specify what these standards will be. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Disadvantaged students are still less likely to achieve the standards we expect for them. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) possible only through comprehensive legislation, which will enable the Government to set new safety standards - Speech Link
2: Lord Borwick (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I have been told that the policy is unchanged and that taxis will eventually be accessible—but when? - Speech Link
3: Lord Haselhurst (CON - Life peer) Promises have been made that could not be fulfilled, and standards have been set and then compromised - Speech Link
4: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The number of spaces must be increased, alongside improved security and standards for lorry parking at - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) South Yorkshire must integrate buses, the Sheffield super tram, local trains, principal road routes, taxis - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) passenger transport executive, we have a body that has neither the funding nor the power to drive up standards - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) Passengers are therefore forced to take cars and taxis, modes of transport that are more expensive and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) If it decides to scrap all the buses and replace them with diesel taxis, it does not have to consider - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) of this point, but will he clarify whether a company that breaks the law and does not meet minimum standards - Speech Link
3: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) Government, when offering a subsidy to companies, to specify that they need to meet certain labour standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Borwick (CON - Excepted Hereditary) That is why I argued successfully that all London taxis should be accessible. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) You cannot get one in the evening either because those taxis work only during the day. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) provide an accessible service; they are happy to do so, and it is a minority we need to bring up to the standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) On funding in particular, the Prime Minister pledged to“level up buses across England towards London standards - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) adequate.Despite the vast subsidies—almost £1 billion—given to install EV charging points, sufficiently high standards - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) in return for the large public subsidies that they receive.We look to the Government to set strong standards - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) schemes are UK-wide, whether we are talking about the plug-in grant for cars, vans, motorcycles or taxis - Speech Link