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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 24 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) hubs, which need much the same sort of location—away from town centres and near good, strong road and rail - Speech Link
2: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) Further, an approach such as this gives a green light to less scrupulous developers who will gain by - Speech Link
3: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) This is a timely and helpful amendment, particularly in the light of the Cunliffe review published on - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) To have solar panels along rail infrastructure supplies a demand which is entirely local. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Pidgeon (LD - Life peer) Alongside that, we want a solar rail, tram and bus map. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Tue 22 Jul 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (Con - Brigg and Immingham) Friend the Member for Gainsborough, for the renewed rail connection between Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Market - Speech Link
2: Melanie Ward (Lab - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) Frankly, Network Rail needs to get on with it, because the community has been asking for an accessible - Speech Link
3: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) I welcomed last week’s news of a direct rail service from Eastbourne to London Bridge, via Polegate, - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) We are looking to restore the Falmouth freight rail line, which has been shut for 20 years, to take 77 - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Water Commission - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) that the Conservatives made the situation far worse, because they instructed the regulator to apply a light - Speech Link
2: Clive Lewis (Lab - Norwich South) With 20% to 50% of bills going on servicing debt, why is public ownership—if it is good enough for rail - Speech Link
3: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) cosy is the instruction that Ofwat received from Ministers in the previous Government to apply only light-touch - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Streatham and Croydon North) that these problems arose because the previous Government instructed the regulators to apply only a light-touch - Speech Link
5: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) that this Government will ensure action—that we do not just monitor, we take action; that there is no light - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Report stage part one - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None If not, I would certainly prefer to have a light-touch, cross-sector AI authority which would ensure - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) I feel like someone who was expecting a full meal but receives a rather light snack. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) In the light of that, I shall leave it to the Minister to set out the situation. I beg to move. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) throughout this anniversary year, when we mark the bicentenary of the first passenger rail journey. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage part two - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) On projects such as rail and road, we have unacceptably high costs in comparison with comparable nations - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) , Lord Banner, is present, but it would be good to have at least some debate as to whether, in the light - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) It was then given the green light again, by the Department for Transport, which reissued a development - Speech Link


Written Statements
High Speed 2 - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) The Rail Minister and I meet regularly with Mark Wild to assess progress, and in March I chaired a meeting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Road and Rail Projects - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None We know that rail investment outside London is well overdue. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) There will be an announcement on Northern Powerhouse Rail shortly. - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) It can apply to roads as well as to rail. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) He will be pleased to know that rail freight grew by 5% last year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) And it was not just the doctors; the rail strikes cost the economy over £1 billion, the teachers’ strike - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I join her in highlighting the LBC investigation, which has really shone a light on some of these issues.On - Speech Link
3: Jas Athwal (Lab - Ilford South) In the light of the ongoing reports of killings, violations and forced displacement, will the Leader - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) In the light of the Government’s active support for weight-loss treatments, can we have a debate in Government - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
London’s National Economic Contribution - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Joe Powell (Lab - Kensington and Bayswater) , I think, four years will deliver things like new trains on the Piccadilly line and the docklands light - Speech Link
2: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) remain in effect cut off from the TfL network, because of either poorly performing bus and national rail - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Neighbourhood Plans: Planning Decisions - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) a huge development being dumped on the border by the neighbouring local authority and an enormous rail - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) The only thing I would say is that in my constituency we fought the national rail freight hub, won and - Speech Link
3: John Milne (LD - Horsham) —[Official Report, 30 July 2024; Vol. 752, c. 1191.]Now that the full text of the Bill has come to light - Speech Link