Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

My Lords, I will be brief. As the focus of this is on passenger travel and the noble Lord’s desir...

My Lords, I rise along with the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, as someone who has worked closely wit...

My Lords, I am in the slightly unusual position of speaking to Conservative amendments that have ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are all designed to try to get some information from the G...

My Lords, I will briefly ask the Minister a question for when he comes to respond.

I am ver...

My Lords, I am always fascinated when Members of the party opposite attack proposals from this si...

My Lords, trade moves by trains. Why do I bring that up? Some of your Lordships may remember that...

My Lords, I would like to intervene because I frequently travel on the railways of France; my wif...

My Lords, I start by apologising to the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, if I caused any confusion...

Can I ask the Minister, sorry the shadow Minister—

I am not quite yet the Minister, but the way the Labour Party is going, who knows?

I asked for that one, I have to say. It is mistakes being made at both ends of the Corridor recen...

If the noble Lord will forgive me, I am asking the questions in this scenario, and I do not feel ...

Can I try to help the noble Lord? My understanding is that the Government are committed to a comp...

The noble Lord puts the Government’s case very well. How much the House has lost in not seeing hi...

First, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, for his welcome; it is nice to see him again in di...

My Lords, I am clutching my copy of the Williams rail review in my hands. I think I am going to r...

I should respond to the noble Lord on three or four points. First, whatever the Williams report s...

So is it Great British Railways that will be doing it, like TfL, and not the Department for Trans...

Well, the noble Lord should not be, because it is quite clear to me that the Government intend to...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who spoke in what I thought was going to be a relatively brie...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, at end insert...

My Lords, I am sure that all of us want the same thing that the passengers want: a railway which ...

My Lords, I have an amendment in this group that is closely aligned with the noble Baroness’s, on...

My Lords, I shall raise a question with the Minister, as we are on the subject of the termination...

My Lords, I honestly believe that the amendment so ably moved by the noble Baroness opposite is e...

My Lords, the noble Baroness makes some very good points. The Greater Anglia service is awfully g...

My Lords, as a Great Western passenger, I wish I could speak as glowingly as my noble friend Lady...

My Lords, I begin by speaking briefly to Amendment 30, standing in my name, which proposes the de...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for explaining their amendments in this group, which consider some ...

I would like some clarification from the Minister on that point. Has the department added up that...

The answer to the noble Lord is: not yet. He will recognise that those costs materialise only whe...

Before my noble friend leaves that point, I will ask him about the question of performance that h...

In answer to my noble friend, and in recognition of some of what I have done in the past, it is s...

I will not pursue the question of “reasonably” at this stage, but I was struck by the Minister sa...

The answer is that it is the Government’s policy to take train operations into public ownership. ...

I would like to raise another point about Avanti. As I understand the law, the Secretary of State...

Before the Minister responds, perhaps I could add something to my noble friend’s comments on Avan...

On my noble friend Lord Liddle’s comment, I am sure the Secretary of State would like to make her...

Going back to the contracts that are performing well, what is the Minister’s view on emergency si...

It varies in accordance with the particular train company. Some of them are coming to a natural c...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the support I have received from across the Committee for my ame...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 12, leave out “only”

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 3 and speak to Amendment 5 and a number of others in the group...

My Lords, I will add a footnote to the excellent speech from my noble friend Lord Lansley and not...

My Lords, I will follow on from the interesting contributions from the noble Lords, Lord Lansley ...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting group of amendments to debate so far, and I am very ta...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham said that he thought that the Government’s determ...

The next time I see our mutual friend Keith Williams I shall tell him that the noble Lord, Lord M...

My Lords, I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have participated in this not terrifically lo...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 15, at end insert—

“(1AA) Befo...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 6 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, I will speak ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 40, which is focused on the issue of policing and safety o...

My Lords, on the issue of freight, the intention should be that the freight service is given dedi...

My Lords, I support the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, about the potential conflict...

My Lords, this small group of amendments addresses a number of issues that inevitably raise quest...

My Lords, I shall speak first to Amendment 40, concerning the British Transport Police, in the na...

I will first say that I am delighted to see the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, in her place. I hop...

Before we move on to the British Transport Police and while we are still considering freight path...

I thank my noble friend Lord Liddle for that intervention. All I can say at this point is that I ...

Would that be a decision for the Secretary of State or for Great British Railways?

I think in due course we will have to come back in the substantive Bill with a proposition on how...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his response to my amendment and other people’s. I...

Before the noble Lord sums up on his amendment, I think the Minister has yet to reply on the issu...

I apologise to the Committee; it is my novice inexperience. I thank the noble Lord for that inter...

My Lords, I apologise for intervening earlier and preventing my noble friend responding on the Br...

I will respond to my noble friend by either talking to him outside or writing to him.

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.