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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) The creation of Great British Railways in particular is a huge opportunity to integrate between rail - Speech Link
2: None strategy, which will support better integration of rail with local and regional multimodal transport - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) devolution for passenger rail services and its legal status. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Region, North East England and South Yorkshire. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Thu 29 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) Midlands is only 90—in other words, 10 percentage points below the average. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab - Life peer) For example, within the East Midlands Combined County Authority, the gap is 5.2 years. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ravensdale (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I worked extensively with the Midlands Engine. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (Con - Melton and Syston) On East Midlands Railway, although normally the trains are short-formed, we regularly see a 10-car train - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) groups and Network Rail. - Speech Link
3: None Rail Forum is right, is it not? - Speech Link
4: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
5: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
6: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
7: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
8: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
9: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
10: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
11: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
12: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
13: None long-term rail strategy. - Speech Link
14: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) The amendment would simply require that the rail strategy includes an international rail strategy to - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None We will now hear oral evidence from First Rail, Rail Freight Group and ALLRAIL. - Speech Link
2: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) It comes from the Rail Delivery Group, through its provision of RAAS, which is the rail availability - Speech Link
3: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) It did not include major projects; we are very supportive of the announcements on East West Rail and - Speech Link
4: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) When you look at areas like the West Midlands, for example, and the West Midlands Rail Executive, their - Speech Link
5: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) Rail Executive, or a combined agreement with the East Midlands combined county authority covering the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) We continue to work with partners on options to achieve the benefits of the midlands rail hub as soon - Speech Link
2: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) I met East Midlands Railways to give the new ticketless travel app it is trialling a go. - Speech Link
3: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) such as East West Rail at Stewartby. - Speech Link
4: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus and Perthshire Glens) rail commuters in Scotland. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Railways Bill
2nd reading - Tue 09 Dec 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) We are currently trialling digital pay-as-you-go in the east midlands and Yorkshire. - Speech Link
2: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) On devolution, many of us in the east would like to see East West Rail—which will have a huge impact—extended - Speech Link
3: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) Friend is aware, the delivery of East West Rail will happen in three stages. - Speech Link
4: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) They want the benefits of the midlands rail hub and rail nationalisation to deliver fewer cancellations - Speech Link
5: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) The midlands rail hub will help us get that back to the four we need.Beyond that, Labour believes in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) What steps she is taking to improve passenger rail performance. - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Friend has raised this issue time and again with East Sussex county council. - Speech Link
3: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) I know that affordability is a top concern for people when it comes to rail. - Speech Link
4: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) Following Network Rail’s Wiltshire rail strategic study, will the Secretary of State or Rail Minister - Speech Link
5: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) I will talk to the Rail Minister and ask him to meet my hon. Friend. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) The choice between a franchise scheme, an enhanced partnership scheme or any other form of scheme has - Speech Link
2: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) North East Surrey College of Technology in my constituency is not accessible by bus, leaving students - Speech Link
3: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) In 2024 there were 76 million fewer bus journeys in the north-east compared with 2010—a fall of more - Speech Link
4: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis). - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis). - Speech Link
6: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Member for North East Hertfordshire (Chris Hinchliff) and my hon. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) In the west midlands, another hotspot, violent crime on buses increased 7% year on year in the latest - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Buses should not be the poor relation of rail. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 02 Jul 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Becky Gittins (Lab - Clwyd East) agreement has been welcomed by the Welsh farming community, including those in my constituency of Clwyd East - Speech Link
2: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) Transport police show a staggering 47% rise in violence and serious public order offences against rail - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Rail staff work incredibly hard to keep our country running and people safe. - Speech Link
4: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) of our 264 women MPs to mark today’s 97th anniversary of the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) On the 97th anniversary of the equal franchise Act, it should be a source of great pride to the House - Speech Link