"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that response, but, while welcoming the 5% increase in rail freight over the past year, we are still a long way from the 70% which was promised in the Labour Party’s last election manifesto and which is still, as far as …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to meet the target of increasing rail freight by 75 per cent by 2050...." Lord Snape - View Speech
"Will my noble friend bear in mind that cities as diverse as New York, Paris and Berlin have tourist taxes and that there is no noticeable lack of tourists in any of them? Would this not provide a valuable source of income, particularly for elected mayors, for example? Dynamic pricing—I …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"My Lords, is my noble friend aware that it is more than 40 years since Sir Peter Parker, the then chairman of British Rail, recommended a rolling programme of railway electrification in this country? It would have had, as he said at the time, the twin merits of keeping together …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"I made an exception for my noble friend straight away, because I knew he might react.
Stand on the corner of Parliament Square and watch them. There are cycle lanes and traffic lights, and a substantial number of cyclists ignore the traffic lights—because in their view nothing is coming—and set …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"My Lords, I will intervene briefly, if I may. One group of people involved in these discussions has not been heard from so far, and that is the bus drivers themselves. I have no financial interest to declare these days in these matters, but over the years I have worked …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"Before the noble Lord sits down, does he remember that the biggest bus manufacturer in the United Kingdom for many years was Leyland buses? Does he remember what happened when it asked for a government subvention in order to stay afloat? The company then went bust. So, is it not …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"Before the noble Lord sits down, can he tell us how he managed to escape from the museum? I am amazed he was not kept in there...." Lord Snape - View Speech
"My Lords, I will respond to the contribution from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, who made a similar speech—in fact, almost exactly the same speech—in Committee. If you are on the fringes of government or in opposition, it is easy to demand reductions, whether of bus fares or something else. …..." Lord Snape - View Speech
"My Lords, will my noble friend acknowledge that the seeds of this dispute were sown during the period when the Conservative and Liberal party coalition ran the city of Birmingham? Many of the financial problems facing the city over the years were caused by the Conservative and Liberal Government in …..." Lord Snape - View Speech