High Speed Rail (London–West Midlands) Bill

My Lords, I start by referring to the excellent committee report which refers to this issue in de...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, f...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for supporting the amendment and for the Minister’s response,...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

18: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—

“E...

My Lords, could I have an explanation on a point from Tuesday’s meeting of this Committee? I want...

As I said on the previous Committee day, looking at public law clauses is what a Committee and a ...

My Lords, Amendment 18, standing in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, is to do w...

I shall speak very briefly. The Minister has already said in reply to a previous amendment that l...

My Lords, perhaps we could probe this amendment. A lot of the work that we did on the Select Comm...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that question because she is absolutely right to seek a p...

My Lords, we have had extensive discussions on HGV routes and the role of the highways authoritie...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I recognise and endor...

I really am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken because I think their words, experience a...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

19: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“A...

My Lords, for the convenience of the Committee, I can speak to Amendments 19 and 20 together, whi...

Perhaps I may just draw the Minister’s attention to the large number of occasions on which Minist...

My Lords, I thank both noble Lords and I shall turn first to that final point. There are other Mi...

On the question of the Government’s intentions in the longer term for HS2, recently we had an ann...

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State referred to a specific line. I am sure that the...

My noble friend has to some extent pre-empted my Amendment 23, but we will come to that shortly. ...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

21: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“C...

My Lords, again, I shall try to be quick. This amendment possibly links to what my noble friend L...

My Lords, again, I note very carefully what the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has suggested. I canno...

Can I be clear about what the Government’s intentions are, or whether they have still to be deter...

I am not sure that the noble Lord heard me correctly. I am saying that an integrated approach to ...

I am grateful to the Minister for most of that response although we may come back to some of it o...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

22: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

My Lords, the Minister kindly referred to the Railways (Access, Management and Licensing of Railw...

My Lords, with respect to this amendment, I should note that it is slightly at odds with the amen...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving me that update on the freight situation. My amendme...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

23: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“N...

To some extent, one or two of my noble friends have already alluded to the matter in Amendment 23...

My Lords, the noble Lord did mention freight on this occasion, but I will not go beyond the mere ...

I am grateful to the Minister and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

24: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“H...

My Lords, I am sorry to go on so long but we are nearly getting to the end.

Noble Lords may...

Is not the noble Lord talking about the old guards’ van?

The noble Lord is tempting me to get on to the issue of guards, which I shall not do. The answer ...

My Lords, I recall the old luggage vans, although the Minister is far too young to remember thing...

My Lords, the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, and my noble friend Lord Berkele...

My Lords, as somebody who puts his Brompton bike on a train every day when I come here, I partly ...

Just to have a bit of up-to-date experience, I always travel on the bus in the morning. Yesterday...

Can the Minister provide an assurance— I am sure that he will be able to—that these facilities wi...

My Lords, this has been a very useful debate, which gives us the opportunity to explain exactly w...

I drove the train.

Oh! I beg your pardon. My noble friend has confirmed that he actually drove the train.

The ...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who contributed and to the Minister for her response. My noble f...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

24A: After Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, this is my last amendment in this section and it is to do with timetabling. Again, we h...

My Lords, unless I mistook what was going on, I have a feeling that the Minister has already repl...

My Lords, I rise briefly to disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and to support what the no...

My Lords, just to be clear, the illustrative timetables have been published already and, indeed, ...

I hate to labour the point. I can understand why detailed timetables would not be wanted, but sur...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken in this brief debate. Perhaps I may say that the no...

I am grateful to the Minister for that response. Indeed, I was not aware of the Treasury paper, w...

I will make a point on Clause 53, which, if I have understood correctly, is one of the clauses th...

I am just checking as I do not have a response. However, the Government will respond and we inten...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

29: Clause 65, page 32, line 17, at end insert “with...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

30: After Clause 65, insert the following new Clause—

“C...

This is a probing amendment to find out from Ministers whether we intend to have the same kind of...

My Lords, I have amendments in this group to which the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, h...

My Lords, we need something to deal with this issue, whatever form that “something” takes, and we...

My Lords, I apologise for not being present at Tuesday’s Committee debate due to private reasons....

My Lords, I do not know where to start on the amendment after that omnibus. However, first, in re...

I made it perfectly clear that I was in no sense criticising the committee. Obviously, I have let...

I am afraid that we will have to agree to disagree, because they did have the opportunity to make...

My Lords, I must correct two points that my noble friend made. The first was that the HS2 people ...

Noble Lords will be aware that there was a consultation on the hybrid Bill procedure, which close...

My Lords, in a sense this goes to the point I was trying to make when we first started about the ...

Perhaps I may raise one or two points on the issue that is set out in the amendment, which as I u...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken to these amendments in the names of th...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister’s peroration but, while I understand the point about the con...

My Lords, in response to the noble Lord’s question, it will continue to be the construction commi...

The Minister has comprehensively covered most of the territory, but I want to address the point t...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green. He is absolutely right th...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her response and to colleagues for their comment...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

39: Clause 67, page 33, line 13, at end insert—

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

46: Schedule 2, page 109, line 3, leave out “2010 (S...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

47: Schedule 14, page 316, line 7, leave out paragra...

My Lords, as noble Lords know, the Bill applies the statutory compulsory acquisition regime to en...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

48: Schedule 14, page 316, line 18, leave out from “...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

65: After Schedule 16, insert the following new ...

I beg to move this amendment standing in my name. I realise that my following remarks risk throwi...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, but he was not here on Tuesday, when I think that the Min...

I have taken note of and am aware of that, but a response is not a debate. While of course I am l...

In part, the amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, relates to an issue ...

To add to that, I have also heard that same rumour from some of the local residents. It is partic...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for his contributions, and the noble Lords, Lor...

I thank the Minister for that full response. I think that one would be more inclined to accept it...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

66: Schedule 17, page 348, line 24, leave out paragraph (a)