All 2 Debates between Louise Haigh and Andrew Murrison

Mon 7th Oct 2019

Rail Performance

Debate between Louise Haigh and Andrew Murrison
Monday 11th November 2024

(1 month, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Louise Haigh Portrait Louise Haigh
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The strikes were costing us £20 million a day in lost revenue. That is aside from the economic impact of people coming off the railways and not making journeys to work, to see friends and family or to visit other towns and cities. Settling the pay disputes that were pervading our railways has already paid for itself.

Andrew Murrison Portrait Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con)
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What lessons has the Secretary of State drawn from rail networks in other countries about rail performance and safety, given that many of them are now automated? Will she make herself a heroine in the south-west by dealing at long last with the notorious Tisbury loop, west of Salisbury, which has added inestimable time to rail journeys to the far south-west? The situation could be resolved at very little cost.

Louise Haigh Portrait Louise Haigh
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I will look into the issue for the right hon. Gentleman. It may be that the Rail Minister has to make himself a hero; I will ask him to meet the right hon. Gentleman to discuss the matter.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Debate between Louise Haigh and Andrew Murrison
Monday 7th October 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Murrison Portrait Dr Murrison
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The hon. Gentleman is correct: there are other dual nationals who are discommoded in a similar way. Of course we talk to our interlocutors in other countries where people are dealt with in this way, to ensure that we see what common ground we have and what we might do together to address these issues. But the fact remains that Nazanin is an Iranian-British dual national. That makes her case different from the other case that we have been discussing today.

Louise Haigh Portrait Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab)
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I do not doubt that the Minister is doing everything within his power, despite the constraints he has laid out. Given the previous Foreign Secretary’s involvement in this case, has he committed personally to raise the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with the Iranian authorities, now that he has been elevated to Prime Minister?