Debates between Laurence Turner and Nusrat Ghani during the 2024 Parliament

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Rail Performance

Debate between Laurence Turner and Nusrat Ghani
Monday 11th November 2024

(3 weeks, 2 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nusrat Ghani Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)
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I call Select Committee member Laurence Turner.

Laurence Turner Portrait Laurence Turner (Birmingham Northfield) (Lab)
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The shadow Secretary of State said that we should pay attention to performance statistics. The figures that I have obtained from the Department show that over the past seven years, there was a 35% increase in temporary and emergency speed restrictions on the network. The Secretary of State has a difficult inheritance, but can she set out for us the work that she is doing to refocus the industry on the hard graft of understanding, maintaining and improving our crumbling infrastructure?

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