Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) as Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire are benefiting from the Prime Minister’s bold new vision for the midlands - Speech Link
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Again, local buses have not filled the gap in the south of the city, and I am pressing the West Midlands - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) already adopting the approach of local franchising.After the fantastic election results in the West Midlands - Speech Link
4: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) What the Labour party is proposing is a franchise policy without any fiscal assistance. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) What recent progress he has made on the East West Rail project. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) For connection stage one of East West Rail. - Speech Link
3: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) The connection of East West Rail from Bedford to Cambridge will cost the taxpayer an enormous amount - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) The East West Rail growth board, which, as my hon. - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) A monthly meeting is held with Network Rail and East Midlands Railway to discuss the introduction of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) Hitachi recently opened, with some fanfare, a factory in the north-east, but that now faces closure because - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) Following that meeting, they asked the Minister to remove the franchise immediately. - Speech Link
3: Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab - Life peer) The water industry provides us with a classic example, particularly in London and the south-east. - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington (XB - Life peer) A number of experiments and systems have been used over the past three to four months in the north-east - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) We are continuing to deliver HS2 between London and the West Midlands, boosting economic growth, improving - Speech Link
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