Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) is being reinvested in the midlands. - Speech Link
2: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) However, that dodgy sounding 1970s ITV franchise does not have a single project with an approved business - Speech Link
3: Darren Henry (Con - Broxtowe) midlands has the lowest amount per head spent per year on transport? - Speech Link
4: Richard Holden (Con - North West Durham) to reach a settlement in the north-east. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) if he will make a statement on the contractual and operational situation of the west coast main line franchise—and - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) demand.I would add that there is some awareness that in relation to services to Milton Keynes, west midlands - Speech Link
3: David Jones (CON - Clwyd West) performance in north Wales over the coming months and years and that, if necessary, it will terminate the franchise - Speech Link
4: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) do not stop with Avanti: persistent issues on the west coast main line have a knock-on impact on any east-west - Speech Link
5: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) Lady is absolutely right that there are knock-on effects and that some of those effects bear on east-west - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) and we want to support them during this time.The Minister knows that commuters on our line and our franchise - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (CON - St Ives) The reason is that Penzance is the start of the British rail network. - Speech Link
3: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) many Cleethorpes residents, had its ticket office modernised a few years ago in partnership with North East - Speech Link
4: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I do not believe in the private sector model in rail provision. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) To name but a few: East Midlands Railway has 16 stations that would become unstaffed, with just daily - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) I was in the west midlands just a couple of weeks ago visiting the RAC just off the M42. - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) Would the Government consider giving all local authorities greater powers and resources to franchise - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) east coast main line upgrade. - Speech Link
4: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) I thank the Minister for his answer, but the most critical rail infrastructure needed in the north-east - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Friend, who is a champion of rail in the north-east. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) One example is open access: on the east coast main line, a public sector operator is competing with private - Speech Link
2: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) I was a keen advocate for TransPennine Express to lose its franchise and for the service to be taken - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (CON - Stoke-on-Trent South) said, it is noticeable that, where we have seen more effective competition, with open access on the east - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Louise Haigh (LAB - Sheffield, Heeley) The fourth franchise in five years has just been brought into public ownership. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) It is certainly the case that the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 and the High Speed - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) That includes delivering High Speed 2, core Northern Powerhouse Rail and East West Rail, as confirmed - Speech Link
4: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) (b) at the launch of that franchise. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) or the west midlands. - Speech Link
2: Richard Holden (CON - North West Durham) partnership had driven up bus usage—probably better than anywhere else in the country—without having a franchise - Speech Link
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