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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Budget: Press Briefings

"The Minister said in his response that the Treasury and the OBR are exchanging information, but that did not happen in the period immediately before the last election, when spending pressures were withheld from the OBR in a way that the chair said may have broken the law. Will the …..."
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Written Question
Buses: Procurement
Monday 17th November 2025

Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number Yutong buses ordered for operation in the UK by operator.

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

The Department holds partial information on the number of Yutong buses ordered for operation in the UK. The information in the table below is correct as of November 2025 for England only, taken from projects which the Department has funded. This includes buses which are in service and those which have been ordered. We do not hold data on any Yutong buses ordered outside of these schemes.

Operator

Number of Yutong buses

Stagecoach

215

First Bus

329

Kinchbus

21

White Bus

10

Leicester City Council

6

Nottingham City Transport

62

Division Vote (Commons)
17 Nov 2025 - Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill - View Vote Context
Laurence Turner (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 305 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 143 Noes - 318
Division Vote (Commons)
17 Nov 2025 - Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill - View Vote Context
Laurence Turner (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 147 Noes - 318
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for becoming the human face of tax collection in this debate. A number of my constituents also work for HMRC, and they have told me that the period of cuts has impeded the agency’s ability to collect corporate taxation and get into the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"The Minister has just spoken about public services and touched on productivity. At the start of the debate, the shadow Chancellor talked about the importance of timely public sector pay settlements to productivity increases. Having been a union official in the aftermath of the strikes by ambulance workers, I have …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"Opposition motions are usually detailed—as, indeed, is the next motion on the Order Paper, relating to energy—so the brevity of this motion deserves comment. The most important line is, I think, the first:

“That this House calls on the Government to control public expenditure”.

In the hands of this Opposition, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, because it brings me to my next point. The Opposition have come to the House today stating that all these difficult matters have been resolved and there is no need for tax increases at all. They say that they have a plan …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"I have said it a number of times on the record and in this House before, so it is no evasion to say that I am no fan of the cap at all. As an incrementalist, I would like to see at least some solid progress on lifting that cap, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Taxes

"No. I have already taken two interventions and I want to make a bit of progress with my speech, but I might come back to the hon. Member.

I hope that the Opposition do publish more detail, because, if they do not, it will be widely suspected in the country …..."
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