Infrastructure Bill [HL]

My Lords, we start on quite a fundamental point, on which even the Minister on occasions has not ...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment because there are already precedents for having a...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, said, I have emphasised before that we have n...

My Lords, I cannot pretend that the second version is any better than the first as regards convin...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, leave out subsections (3) and (4) ...

My Lords, I apologise to the Minister and the Committee that I was not here for the previous bit;...

I support my noble friend’s amendment. I am glad that he is here, because I am not sure that any ...

My Lords, I imagine that the Minister will have little difficulty in responding to this amendment...

My Lords, I will indeed enjoy responding to this amendment. It would seem from the speeches I hav...

Well, my Lords, I am not totally convinced by the Minister and I suspect that casual readers of t...

My Lords, at Second Reading the Government failed to provide a convincing case for why the strate...

My Lords, I regret that I was not able to speak at Second Reading, owing to other commitments. I ...

My Lords, I support the proposal that Clause 1 should not stand part of the Bill, as it queries w...

My Lords, I would just like to ask the Minister where this figure of a £2.6 billion saving comes ...

My Lords, perhaps I should declare an interest in that I, too, am a regular user of the A303. Whe...

If I may just respond to the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, let me say that I, too, congratulate the ...

My Lords, I declare my interests as in the register, although I do not think that any of them hav...

My Lords, I will start by referring to two roads. First, the A303 is part of a feasibility study,...

The Minister made reference to the Swedish experience of financing roads. I have been involved wi...

If I may, I will provide my noble friend with more detail in writing. We have provided one letter...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

4: Schedule 1, page 31, line 35, at end insert—

“( ) The S...

My Lords, Schedule 1 is 26 pages long. It is devoted almost entirely to inserting in the Highways...

My Lords, I support my noble friend in his Amendment 4, and I shall speak to the other amendments...

The amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, with which I agree, mentions “speed control s...

Well, my Lords, that is a bumper that whistled past the Minster’s ears. It is an interesting litt...

My Lords, your Lordships have raised a number of important issues around the powers that are tran...

My Lords, I am afraid that I was engaged on the Floor of the House for the first part of the Comm...

Manufacturing.

Yes, manufacturing, so I may have missed this. The trouble as one gets older is that one forgets ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, for that addition to the discussion. What was published last...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that reply. I will read very carefully what she has said in ...

If your Lordships want to look at the document more immediately, it is attached to the Bill on th...

My Lords, I have just retired as president of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. At an a...

Let me just make a final response to that. There was a WMS when the documents were published, so ...

There was what?

There was a Written Ministerial Statement when the documents were published, so I hope that some ...

My Lords, many of us probably share some of the frustrations of the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, as t...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

9: Clause 2, page 2, line 8, leave out from “must” to end of lin...

My Lords, I am sorry, but this is something else that I think should be in the Bill. It does sort...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendments, and shall speak to the two amendments in my nam...

My Lords, before I begin, I have now had confirmation that the documents that we have been discus...

My Lords, I apologise for missing my cue. The department needs to think a little about how this i...

My Lords, I did not give notice of my intention to oppose the question that Clause 2 stand part o...

I am putting the question.

I am sorry if I was out of order. The point has been made that the Bill incorporates, amends and ...

Normally the convention is that when a noble Lord wants to speak to a particular clause stand par...

I am very happy to attempt to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, on this point. To try to wo...

My Lords, I entirely accept my noble friend’s explanation on this. It obviously very much depends...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

13: Before Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

My Lords, to some extent Amendment 13 follows on from my noble friend Lord Whitty’s Amendment 4 o...

I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has said, but will add something. You can argue ...

My Lords, I agree with the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, about cross-modal being a...

My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 40 in this group on precisely the subject of the duty to co-ope...

My Lords, I want to reinforce the points that have already been made in terms of some definitions...

My Lords, in supporting Amendment 15, first, I apologise for not being able to speak at Second Re...

My Lords, again we have a wide range of amendments. It is fair to say that it is vital that the s...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and to the Minister for her r...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

14: Clause 3, page 2, line 34, at end insert “and at least every...

We now come on to the strategy and, by implication, the money. The Government have commendably sa...

My Lords, it is my impression that this road investment strategy, and the commitments made to it ...

My Lords, in discussing the strategies and the length of time, my Amendments 23 and 24 go into mo...

I thank your Lordships. These amendments are fairly well honed around a question to the Governmen...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that, and I thank other contributors. It is clear that the wor...

I do not want this point to go unchallenged. I say to the noble Lord that I think the industry ha...

Perhaps I might add to that before the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, resumes. I have in front of me th...

My Lords, that is very realistic; nevertheless, the way that it has described the situation is mo...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

17: Clause 3, page 3, line 2, at end insert—

“( ...

My Lords, I am in great danger of running into the same brick wall of a government response as my...

I would like to put a question to the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, about his amendment. I b...

My Lords, through these amendments, the noble Lord, Lord Davies, and others seek to ensure that t...

My Lords, I will back off from my amendment in relation to local authorities out of deference to ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

18: Clause 3, page 3, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) The acti...

All the amendments in this group are mine. This relates to exactly the sort of thing that my nobl...

My Lords, I support my noble friend. He has raised some very interesting challenges. I do not thi...

My Lords, I can be very brief. I fully endorse the statements made by my noble friend Lord Whitty...

This set of amendments seeks to make the road investment strategy cover several specific areas, i...

The noble Baroness mentioned the performance specification. Giving something like the Highways Ag...

All I can say to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, on this, is that we have certainly moved on from ...

My Lords, I am exceptionally disappointed by that reply, because it did not address the issue. I ...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

20: Clause 3, page 3, line 8, at end insert—

“( ...

My Lords, Amendments 20 and 21 in my name are designed to encourage proper scrutiny of the road i...

My Lords, I have an amendment in this group. I agree entirely with my noble friend Lord Davies on...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group. Amendment 26 is more about who should be consulted...

My Lords, as we explained in the RIS explanatory document, Setting the Road Investment Strategy—a...

The first strategy is put before Parliament but presumably the Secretary of State consults all th...

The Secretary of State and others are very heavily engaged with stakeholders. That is the way in ...

I will press the Minister once more. I see nothing in part 1 of Schedule 2 that says that the Sec...

The point that underpins all this is that Ministers, rather than Parliament, have traditionally m...

Just for clarification, when I wrote the amendment I meant Part 1, but I am afraid that I spoke a...

I appreciate the noble Lord’s comments. We feel that there is a substantial mechanism for engagem...

My Lords, it is my duty to withdraw my amendment. However, the Minister seems to suggest that the...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

25: Schedule 2, page 57, line 26, after “objectives,” ...

My Lords, there currently appears to be a gap in the Government’s draft licence for the strategic...

My Lords, in lending my support to my noble friend Lord Davies, I speak to my Amendment 39. It pr...

I shall add some comments to those just made by the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth. The Government...

My Lords, I have slipped an amendment into this group as well. In a sense, it deals with the same...

I shall build on what the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, has just said. Earlier in the week, noble Lord...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, in what he says. The Treasury has been rigid in ...

My Lords, I have to be quite quick to be sure that I finish before rising time, so these will be ...

My Lords, this was a probing amendment and it certainly hit its target. Let us be conscious, cert...

My Lords, I think this might be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.