Feb. 20 2024
Source Page: Draft Rail Reform BillFound: Act 1993, and the Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railways Undertakings) Regulations
Mentions:
1: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) We cannot build enough new railways and roads to deal with the extra demand. - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) Britain’s chance to succeed and prosper in future is as a high-tech, high-skilled economy. - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) workers routes to ensure we are bringing people into the country only when strictly necessary and not - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) In the old days, rentiers and capitalists tended to face higher tax rates than workers, who received - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) to our economic decline is not privatisation, of the NHS or anything else; it is public ownership of railways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) One of the answers—beyond local buses, which desperately need investment—is railways. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) Highly skilled migrants contribute highly to the UK’s tech sector: 49% of the UK’s fastest- growing businesses - Speech Link
May. 16 2024
Source Page: Lowering the minimum age requirement for train drivers from 20 to 18Found: drivers from 20 to 18 years 4 Ministerial Fo reword Britain h as one of the safest railways
May. 20 2024
Source Page: I. Letter dated 15/05/2024 from Huw Merriman MP to Iain Stewart MP regarding launch of a public consultation on the minimum age for train driving. 1p. II. Lowering the minimum age requirement for train drivers from 20 to 18 years. Consultation 27p.Found: drivers from 20 to 18 years 4 Ministerial Fo reword Britain h as one of the safest railways
Found: New, multi -skilled ‘customer help’ roles – which are already in place at many stations – will mean
Written Evidence Nov. 27 2023
Inquiry: Modern methods of construction – what’s gone wrong?Found: opportunities have been identified to construct residential units above linear infrastructure, such as railways
Written Evidence Oct. 04 2023
Inquiry: Future of transport dataFound: supply chain: for example, RIA member Arcadis are undertaking a long-term project with Dutch railways
Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) working with the transport industry to create high-quality apprenticeships so that the sector has the skilled - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) We need more skilled individuals to deliver that infrastructure. - Speech Link
3: Theo Clarke (CON - Stafford) What recent steps he has taken to reform the railways. - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) In February this year I set out our commitment to reforming the railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) automotive industry that they and their constituencies are associated with.That industry is full of skilled - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Car companies need highly skilled individuals across the entirety of their business. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) They told me that, throughout covid, they were considered key workers. - Speech Link
4: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) that hydrogen power is coming fast, and that its impact might be similar to what the invention of the railways - Speech Link