Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

My Lords, this Bill was forecast in the Labour Party’s manifesto. We have no quarrel with the nee...

My Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lady Blake to the Front Bench and congratulate her in leading...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, who was the opposition s...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, whether on thi...

My Lords, it is a great privilege and honour to make my maiden speech in this House, having moved...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register of interests, as chairman of Transpor...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, to her position in this interesting deb...

My Lords, it is an honour and a privilege to speak in your Lordships’ House for the first time. O...

My Lords, it is a real pleasure and a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, as sh...

My Lords, as a fellow gnarled veteran, speaking in this debate with so many maiden speeches vivid...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Blake on a brilliant opening speech and on her long...

My Lords, it was a real pleasure to hear the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon. W...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. I think that ...

My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Grayling, who is not here, the noble Baroness,...

Prisoners.

Maybe the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, does not take prisoners either, but she always does it with...

Thank you—my Lords, I nearly said, “Thank you, Mr Speaker”. That is what comes of spending 20-odd...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Cryer and to congratulate him on ...

My Lords, I have much enjoyed listening to this afternoon’s debate, partly because of the excelle...

My Lords, it is my great pleasure to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Grayling, the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, who, as usual, brings his a...

My Lords, I have been pre-empted in much of what I wished to say by my colleague, the speaker bef...

My Lords, this Bill and this debate are primarily about passenger railway services but, with the ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, who is not her in place at the moment, for her ...

My Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate. We have strayed across the world, as far as J...

My Lords, I congratulate all those who made their maiden speeches in this debate. They made excel...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has participated in this very rich debate. I pay particular tribut...

Will the Minister agree to meet both of us to discuss other issues, such as the apps and the inco...

My apologies. I was not trying to make things out to be shiny and rosy; I was just trying to say ...