Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) What steps he is taking to improve cross-border transport links between south-east Wales and south-west - Speech Link
2: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) That includes over £7.3 million since March 2020 to West Midlands Combined Authority to protect bus services - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Member for Wythenshawe and Sale East (Mike Kane) asked, where is the seafarers’ charter? - Speech Link
4: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) In Scotland, through our publicly owned ScotRail franchise, peak fare rail travel will be scrapped for - Speech Link
5: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) We see the transformation it is having in the west midlands, as Andy Street never tires of telling me - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None But not every rail worker is being given that chance. - Speech Link
2: None but to run a much-reduced timetable, with fewer trains per hour from London to destinations in the Midlands - Speech Link
3: None It is why we are making progress on rail reform. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) FirstGroup has failed in this franchise and continues to fail with TransPennine Express. - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) Although I do not live in the north-east, I am conscious that many Members here do. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) but to run a much-reduced timetable, with fewer trains per hour from London to destinations in the midlands - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) However, passengers across the midlands, the north and Scotland, Members from both sides of the House - Speech Link
3: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) LNER, on the east coast, in my view one of the reasons why good performance is delivered on that route - Speech Link
4: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) travelling public know it, we know it, and I suspect he knows it too: Avanti should be stripped of its franchise - Speech Link
5: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) On LNER, that franchise often delivered very good performance. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Indeed, I argued that some of north Derbyshire, such as Chesterfield, north-east Derbyshire and Bolsover - Speech Link
2: Lord Bach (LAB - Life peer) In the West Midlands, that support is not forthcoming. - Speech Link
3: None spending, according to ONS figures, in the south-east and London. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) would require a combined county authority to undertake an assessment of any company operating a train franchise - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) We also have Hitachi Rail, which has played a significant role in levelling up the north-east since the - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) As we have already heard this morning, Hitachi Rail is one of the anchors of north-east manufacturing - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Midlands Railway and West Coast. - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) I recently had a tour around both the options for East West Rail as it comes into Cambridge. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) Haughley junctions, to restore four trains per hour to London Stansted, to secure East West Rail and - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) I will comment on the rail issues in passing a little later, but they are vital to the east of England - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) That will improve connectivity from the Felixstowe-Harwich freeport to the midlands and the north, thereby - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) franchise that was very much about delivering rolling stock, improvements on productivity, performance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) It is clear that the west coast franchise has been fundamentally mismanaged by Avanti. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) my constituency, they planned to make all the engineers redundant and to move them to a place in the midlands - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) LNER runs the east coast main line and we might think that it would face similar logistics to Avanti, - Speech Link
4: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) Hopefully, that will restore trust in our rail sector. - Speech Link
5: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) Member for Vauxhall is aware, rail is not dealt with in the Bill. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thangam Debbonaire (LAB - Bristol West) Friend the Member for Newport East (Jessica Morden), who so ably stood in for me.Yesterday, the Leader - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) but Gainsborough is going to be ringed with 10,000 acres of solar panels, more than the rest of the east - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) The Government have also continued to infuriate NHS workers, rail workers, ambulance drivers, union members - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) This is not the first time we have heard such criticism about that particular franchise and that particular - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Fletcher (CON - Bolsover) Connect, a McDonald’s franchise and dozens of other businesses, not to mention the thousands of people - Speech Link
2: Lee Anderson (CON - Ashfield) the Member for Bolsover said, we are close to three cities, there is an airport and there are good rail - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) The Office for Rail and Road has found that stopped vehicle detection technology is failing to meet National - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (LAB - Nottingham South) The east midlands remain at the bottom of the table for Government investment and as a result our region - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Along with East West Rail, it continues to dominate my working week, with countless problems arising - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) Wales has 11% of the rail network and 2% of rail enhancement funding. - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) franchise governing the TransPennine Express. - Speech Link