Parliamentary search - Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

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470 c1132-64

Session

2007-08

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Department for Transport

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Third reading and Report stage

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House of Commons chamber

Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill. (Explanatory Note Bill 4-EN published).
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Bills
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Proceeding contributions

Bob Spink | 470 c1143 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. I have listened to the debate, having sat in on most of it, and I am surprised that n...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1144 (Link to this contribution) What action did the Government take immediately after the publication of the Strategic Rail Authorit...

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Tom Harris | 470 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) I was about to point out that no one has yet mentioned the relevance of the amendments to the Bill, ...

Tom Harris | 470 c1145 (Link to this contribution) As I am addressing my remarks to the hon. Member for Orpington, it would be better if he intervened ...

Tom Harris | 470 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman be entirely surprised if I tell him that I do not have those details to hand...

Lord Horam | 470 c1145 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is an affable man and one of the more able Government Ministers. It is hard to explain ...

Tom Harris | 470 c1145 (Link to this contribution) We are in danger of indulging in tabloid politics. With due respect, although the hon. Gentleman may...

Tom Harris | 470 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a relevant point that has not yet been made. I shall not give way to the hon. Member for...

Tom Harris | 470 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Wimbledon.

Tom Harris | 470 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I expect the platforms to be in service by 2014. With that reassurance, I urge the hon. Member for C...

Norman Baker | 470 c1146 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has set out the complexities fairly. However, will he tell us the last possible date, i...

Tom Harris | 470 c1146 (Link to this contribution) I was trying to make the point that whatever work has been done in considering options for the domes...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1146 (Link to this contribution) A moment ago, the Minister accused me of intellectual acrobatics; actually, he is engaging in them h...

Speaker | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps it will assist the House if I indicate that were the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for that indication, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Obviously, I shall not seek leave to w...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's response to the debate has been disappointing. We have not raised the matter as a par...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse my hon. Friend's arguments. I am not yet sure if he is going to say whether he wi...

Norman Baker | 470 c1138 (Link to this contribution) I welcome amendment No. 4. It is a very timely amendment that raises a serious issue. Indeed, it is ...

Norman Baker | 470 c1139 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did raise that point a moment ago, and I am tempted to give the same answer as th...

Peter Soulsby | 470 c1139 (Link to this contribution) I want to make the same point as I did when I intervened on the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Stephen H...

Norman Baker | 470 c1141 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the hon. Gentleman that the project used to be called Thameslink 2000?

Lord Horam | 470 c1141 (Link to this contribution) Yet in 2008 it is still not built—or, rather, it has been built but it will be years before it relie...

Tom Harris | 470 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to prolong the debate, but to answer the comment made by the hon. Member for Lewes (No...

Greg Knight | 470 c1140 (Link to this contribution) We have just heard three excellent speeches, all of which have made a compelling case for action. I ...

Ian Taylor | 470 c1140 (Link to this contribution) I think that I was the first to raise this matter: I did so in 2004, and have done so regularly sinc...

Greg Knight | 470 c1140-1 (Link to this contribution) I can well understand my hon. Friend's concern but, although my constituents do not face the disastr...

Lord Horam | 470 c1141 (Link to this contribution) I support amendments Nos. 7 and 4. I heard the critical remarks that my right hon. Friend the Member...

Peter Soulsby | 470 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I was not suggesting that that was undesirable or that it would take a long time. I merely intervene...

Lord Horam | 470 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister was wise to do that. However, the fact remains that it will be a long time before we wi...

Bob Spink | 470 c1143 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?

Tom Harris | 470 c1143 (Link to this contribution) That is a very early intervention, but of course I will allow it.

Lord Horam | 470 c1142 (Link to this contribution) No, because I have finished my speech.

Tom Harris | 470 c1143 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak more in the hope than in the expectation that I can persuade Opposition Members that...

Lord Horam | 470 c1142 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has elaborated and clarified his comment, but the fact is that thi...

Bob Spink | 470 c1142 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Tom Harris | 470 c1158 (Link to this contribution) In an attempt to satisfy the hon. Gentleman's curiosity, I understand that such a form of words—or a...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I am not just concerned about the ORR, but I am grateful for the Minister's assurance. If the Minis...

Tom Harris | 470 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight) is right to say that there has been some debat...

Greg Knight | 470 c1160-1 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted by the Minister's response to my arguments in favour of amendment No. 9. It is pleasi...

Tom Harris | 470 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I would like to take this opportunity to r...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1162-3 (Link to this contribution) I was wondering whether the conclusion of the Under-Secretary's speech was a challenge to us to be s...

Norman Baker | 470 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I largely agree with the comments of the Minister and the spokesman for the Conservative party, the ...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I do not need to reread them to know that the words ““the same”” are not used. However, the words"““...

Tom Harris | 470 c1164 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely the Government's expectation that freight will use High Speed 1, but the hon. Gentl...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1148 (Link to this contribution) I used to be the shadow Minister for the millennium dome, so I will not be drawn into a long debate ...

Ian Taylor | 470 c1148 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Government have claimed credit for Crossrail, which has eventually been sorted out, s...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1148-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, they have failed, and sooner rather than later, more and more people are going to realis...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1149-51 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 3, page 1, line 5, at end add—"'(3) In subsection (1) ““rail services”” ...

Speaker | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) Order. I assure the hon. Gentleman that I was not seeking to cut him off, as I had to on his lengthy...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) That is very fairly put, if I may say so, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in the light of my earlier provocation...

Norman Baker | 470 c1147 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman notice any comparisons or parallels between Waterloo international and the m...

Tom Harris | 470 c1151 (Link to this contribution) In response to the suggestion of the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Stephen Hammond) that my answers in ...

Tom Harris | 470 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Trust me.

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1157 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the House long. I am delighted that amendment No. 9 has been selected. As my righ...

Peter Soulsby | 470 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight) said, I have added my name to amendment No....

Christopher Chope | 470 c1156 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend know whether this form of words is unique to the ORR and the Bill, or is t...

Greg Knight | 470 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the answer to that, but my concerns nevertheless remain. If this wording is used elsew...

Greg Knight | 470 c1155-6 (Link to this contribution) Given that my amendment has been signed not only by my hon. Friends the Members for Christchurch and...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1152 (Link to this contribution) The Minister may say that, but I have learnt in life that that is not always a wise thing to do, alt...

Greg Knight | 470 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 9, page 2, line 8, leave out from 'as' to 'in' in line 9 and insert"'is ...

Greg Knight | 470 c1158 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend rereads the explanatory notes, he will see that they use the word ““similar”” rath...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support amendment No. 9. I was a little disappointed that my right hon. Friend the Member fo...

Ian Taylor | 470 c1136 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to this debate for longer than it would appear by the length of my presence in the C...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1136-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your instruction, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Some of my colleagues might think that the r...

Speaker | 470 c1136 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, but may I urge him to address either the Chair or...

Peter Soulsby | 470 c1135 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the use of those platforms—which is, indeed, very desirable—sound very simp...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1134-5 (Link to this contribution) In that eventuality, I shall certainly seek the Chair's permission to do so. When the decision was ...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) Alterations to the station do not present a difficult problem. I accept that there are some track pr...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1134 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope), but, as he...

Greg Knight | 470 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that, if our hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) seeks l...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1133-4 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that my amendment is more probing in order to raise the issue, while I view amendment ...

Greg Knight | 470 c1133 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend's argument, but does he accept that his amendment No. 7 is not ideal bec...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1132 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that amendment No. 7 has been grouped with amendment No. 4, tabled in the name of my ...

Speaker | 470 c1132 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 4, page 1, line 5, at end add— ‘( ) The po...

Christopher Chope | 470 c1132 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 7, in page 1, line 4, at end insert"'and the railway assets at Waterloo ...

Norman Baker | 470 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I see that the Minister agrees. Having made those two simple points, I welcome the Bill on behalf o...

Greg Knight | 470 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I join those who have contributed to this Third Reading debate in welcoming the amended Bill and wis...

Norman Baker | 470 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that. I was suggesting not that freight should not be commercial, ...

Speaker | 470 c1155 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 2, page 2, line 25, at end insert"'but such...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1152 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the Minister and have no doubt that his stated intention is that no sub...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1136 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend again makes the excellent point about the need for works at places other than Waterlo...

Tom Harris | 470 c1164 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Subjects

Assets

Channel tunnel

High Speed 1 line

Fees and charges

High speed trains

Railway stations

Railways

Railway network

St Pancras Station

Office of Rail Regulation

Waterloo Station

Legislation

Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill 2007-08

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