Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

My Lords, I support my noble friend on his Amendment 1 and will speak to Amendment 14 in my name....

My Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendment 16, which is in this group. I am, as ever, gratefu...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on some of the themes that my noble friend Lord Gascoigne has been...

My Lords, Amendment 1 is impossible to disagree with. It is fundamental to the survival of our ra...

My Lords, we have had lengthy discussion on this Bill in Committee, and it is not my intention to...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Gascoigne and Lord Moylan, for Amendment 1. I absolutely support th...

Are not the staff of Waterloo station already employed by Network Rail?

12.45 pm

I was referring to the people who drive and operate the trains. There are more of them on Waterlo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response, to all those who spoke in this relative...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, at end insert—

“25B Terminat...

My Lords, in the course of debate at Second Reading and in Committee, numerous noble Lords drew a...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 2, and to Amendment 10 in my name and that of my noble friend...

My Lords, from listening to the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, I think there is a misunderstandi...

My Lords, I am glad I let the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, speak before me, because I listened very c...

My Lords, I expressed some sympathy with this amendment, or an amendment similar to it, in Commit...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Randerson and Lady Scott of N...

Before the Minister sits down, can he just clarify something that he said? Is it the case that un...

Is that the two worst-performing franchises or two others?

Any franchises. Can he use that section to renew the satisfactory franchises, because it would “n...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for his intervention. I think he is right, but he will forgiv...

My Lords, with the leave of your Lordships’ House, I may speak for slightly longer than would be ...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

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

“(1A) In sect...

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 3 in my name is to explore the question of when and under what...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 13 and 17 in my name, but also to respond to my noble fri...

My Lords, I rise to say a few words on Amendment 13 and the future of rail freight once this legi...

My Lords, these three amendments deal with crucial aspects of the running of the railways and the...

I thank noble Lords for their amendments in this group. In response to Amendment 3, from the nobl...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. It has ...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

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

Member's e...

My Lords, this is the last group on which I plan to speak. My amendment was prompted by a debate ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Lansley for posing those very interesting qu...

My Lords, this group raises some interesting questions about the various shapes that the ownershi...

My Lords, I will speak briefly, as the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, mentioned what I said in C...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Lansley and Lord Moylan, for their amendments in this group. I will...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who participated in this shortish debate, particu...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

5: Clause 2, page 2, line 15, after “Regulations” insert “or by ...

My Lords, if I may respond to what the Minister said, he is asking us to make a huge bet on what ...

The noble Lord has spoken as if public ownership is something evil. I remember, when I worked on ...

My Lords, I made no reference to good or evil. I am talking about operational efficiency. I am su...

My Lords—

I am only trying to move an amendment.

It is the introduction to it that is the problem. Is it not the case that the public support publ...

My Lords, the noble Lord brings me to exactly my point. The benefits of public ownership that the...

Moved by

Baroness Pidgeon

7: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA Ex...

My Lords, our Amendment 7 is about rail devolution, discussed extensively in Committee from all s...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in this group, particularly Amendment 12 standing in my ...

My Lords, in response to the previous group, the Minister emphasised— I think it was in reply to ...

My Lords, I would like to clarify a point for the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, on Amendment 13. If I ...

One thing that has united this House in our discussions is support for further devolution and ack...

Before we move on to the next group, I have to inform the House about the voting in the third Div...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

8: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30ZA St...

My Lords, I declare my interest as vice-chair of the Accessible Transport Policy Commission. I st...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 8 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, to which I...

My Lords, I am very pleased to speak in support of my noble friend Lady Brinton and the significa...

My Lords, I rise with some humility to make a few comments on Amendment 8, which, of course, is o...

My Lords, I will speak first to Amendment 8, which was tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton...

My Lords, in tabling Amendment 8, I was very aware of standing on the shoulders of giants, includ...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

9: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“30...

My Lords, Amendment 9 in my name would require an annual report on public operator liabilities. T...

My Lords, I have one very brief question for the Minister, following the warnings by the noble Lo...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Young sought throughout Committee, with great forensic precision a...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for tabling Amendment 9 and for our productive meeting the ot...

My Lords, as this is the last debate and possibly the last speech on Report, I commend the Minist...

Tabled by

Lord Moylan

12: Clause 2, page 3, line 32, at end insert—

“30D Prelim...

My Lords, this amendment deals with devolution and requires the Government to start work on that ...

I said I hoped to.

On the basis of that “hope”, which I imagine the Minister will expect to be held to—and which I w...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

13: Clause 2, page 3, line 32, at end insert—

“30D Stateme...

I am afraid the case is rather different in relation to Amendment 13, which relates to freight an...

Moved by

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill

15: After Clause 2, insert the following new Cla...