Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) providing major increases in funding for the major network programme, with some £900 million extra in the midlands - Speech Link
2: Bill Esterson (Lab - Sefton Central) Meanwhile, Midlands Connect warns that sub-national transport bodies have also been snubbed. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gareth Johnson (Con - Dartford) Should it go up to the midlands or down to the west country? - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) I am very much looking forward to seeing Claire Ward elected as the first Mayor of the East Midlands - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) We plan to bring railways back into public hands and to allow all local authorities to take back control - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) It has been three years since we were told that Great British Railways would happen. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) more powers to the east midlands to help him with that task. - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) It is the wrong move when we are trying to encourage more people on to the railways. - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Thanks to our great West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, we now have the midlands rail hub, which will better - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I have seen minimum strike levels—I think they are in the railways now, are they not? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Will these cuts be evenly spread across the country, or will they just shut down the NHS in the west midlands - Speech Link
2: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) We need to build more roads, some railways and some homes. - Speech Link
3: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.As we approach the 200th anniversary of the railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) apprenticeship levy unspent since 2019.I recently visited South and City College Birmingham with our superb West Midlands - Speech Link
2: Paul Bristow (Con - Peterborough) When I asked him for an example, he decided, curiously, to talk about the railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) CAM Testbed UK, a unique cluster of five facilities between London and the west midlands, has received - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) From the way this Government have politicised the ongoing industrial dispute on our railways and Ministers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) topics so that there is time for other colleagues to come in, and I would like to talk first about railways - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) we will have heard, because we are in the run-up to an election, of plans to spend HS2 money in the midlands - Speech Link
3: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) constitutional future of Wales, alongside other matters such as the devolution of justice and the devolution of railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) balance is a fair one.In the last three years, the UK taxpayer has contributed £45.9 billion to keep the railways - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) spokesperson replacement service this morning.Last October, peak fares were scrapped across Scotland’s railways - Speech Link
3: Tom Randall (Con - Gedling) Friend for that answer, and for the billions that have been redirected to the midlands for road repairs - Speech Link
4: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) know that he understands that this is a huge opportunity to improve our over-subsidised, post-pandemic railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) High-speed rail should modernise our railways, connect more of the country and increase capacity. - Speech Link
2: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) us to develop freight opportunities, which would in turn strengthen our economy—just as the original railways - Speech Link
3: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) We want railways that are right for our communities, right for our society and right for our economy. - Speech Link