Train Services (Maidenhead and Twyford)

Adjournment debate on Thursday, 18 January 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness May of Maidenhead. The answering member was Tom Harris.

Adjournment debate on the service provided by First Great Western Railways from Maidenhead and Twyford.

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

455 c1027-36

Session

2006-07

Department

Chamber / Committee

Proceeding contributions

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise in the House the problems that my constituents are suf...

Fiona Mactaggart | 455 c1028 (Link to this contribution) The complaints of the hon. Lady’s constituents are similar to those of my constituents about the app...

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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1028-30 (Link to this contribution) I do share that concern and I know that the hon. Lady has been fighting on behalf of her constituent...

Fiona Mactaggart | 455 c1031 (Link to this contribution) I realise that the picture my hon. Friend paints is true nationally, but I must advise him that that...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1031 (Link to this contribution) Overcrowding is crucial in individual passengers’ experience of rail services. Does the Minister sta...

Tom Harris | 455 c1031 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend pre-empts my further comments. First Great Western’s performance has been below the n...

Tom Harris | 455 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) I rather suspect that I should not have brought that issue up—first because it has obviously inspire...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1032 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is being very generous with his time, but I would like to point out that, unless it is ...

Tom Harris | 455 c1033 (Link to this contribution) The Government do not specify timetables. It is up to train operating companies to decide how best t...

Tom Harris | 455 c1033 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the right hon. Lady’s criticism is that the Government specifies too much or does n...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1033 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to have a long interaction with the Minister about the meaning of a timetable, but t...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1034 (Link to this contribution) In any tender process, bids are always made against a particular specification of service. What used...

Tom Harris | 455 c1034 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend finds this area of economic policy interesting, I am sure that she will have read ...

Fiona Mactaggart | 455 c1034 (Link to this contribution) The Government could help in a particular way. My constituents and those of the right hon. Member fo...

Tom Harris | 455 c1031-2 (Link to this contribution) I accept that although performance was the biggest issue facing the rail industry four or five years...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 455 c1034 (Link to this contribution) We can tell First Great Western that the Minister is shaking his head and that when it tells us that...

Tom Harris | 455 c1034-6 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have an opportunity to place on the record that the service level commitments cont...

Tom Harris | 455 c1030-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) on securing this debate and providing...

Subjects

Railways

Standards

Unknown

Great Western Railway

Maidenhead

Twyford

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