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Written Question
Railways: Capital Investment
Thursday 24th July 2025

Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 65477 on Railways: Capital Investment, if she will publish each iteration of that graph during the fourth quarter of 2022.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The chart(s) in question represent scenario planning that was used to inform decision making of the previous administration and it is not appropriate to disclose them.

Written Question
Marriage: Reform
Thursday 24th July 2025

Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42776 on Marriage: Humanism, what progress she has made on reviewing the recommendations of the Law Commission's report on marriage reform, published in July 2022.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Government appreciates the importance of this issue and will provide an update in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Birmingham Bin Strikes

"I welcome the appointment of the new lead commissioner. As the Minister knows, we have had many discussions about the intervention, including at times from a place of concern. I look forward to working constructively with Tony McArdle on behalf of the citizens of Birmingham. I draw attention to my …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery

"I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests in respect of the GMB trade union. The Minister said that he was engaging with workers. Will he set out in more detail what engagement he is undertaking with the trade unions that are those …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Orgreave Inquiry

"I strongly welcome the Minister’s statement and the fulfilment of that manifesto commitment and, like others, I pay tribute to the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.

I am sure that Members across the House will have been disturbed by reports of the destruction of potentially relevant documents—a point that has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Victoria college in my constituency is one of the relatively small number of SEND specialist further education colleges in the country. It does outstanding work. For many years, such colleges have not had access to dedicated capital grant funding. Will the Minister be so good as to look into the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Victory over Japan: 80th Anniversary

"I am truly thankful to be called to speak today. In three weeks, we will remember as a nation the end of the second world war and the deliverance of peace from that bloodiest conflict. In this House, too, we remember the terrible scale and depths of human suffering, the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Government Support for Ukrainians

"Has the hon. Member seen the research produced by the University of Birmingham on the experience of Ukrainian refugees in circumstances such as those he describes, particularly loss of employment and loss of tenancies? Does he agree that landlords and employers should not be acting in this way, that to …..."
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Written Question
Cats: Animal Breeding
Monday 21st July 2025

Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2025 to Question 37879 on Cats: Animal Breeding, what progress he has made in reviewing the recommendations of the Animal Welfare Committee Opinion on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices, published in December 2024.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government is still carefully considering the recommendations of the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinion on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices.

Written Question
Railways: ICT
Thursday 17th July 2025

Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress Network Rail has made on the potential replacement of the Total Operations Processing System.

Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Network Rail Route Service’s Digital, Data and Technology Services Team has a project progressing to replace the Total Operations Processing System (and related Passenger Operations Information System).

This was started in January 2024 when funding had been allocated from the Control Period 7 settlement and is forecast to complete by Quarter 2 2029.

The System Release Proposal provides additional information about this work. This document was issued for formal consultation on 9 May 2025 to 8 July 2025 to at least 60 stakeholders. (This number may be greater due to onward sharing).

The Network Rail project team has received six formal responses of which only one was negative to the approach. Therefore, the project continues as planned.