Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) It is a peculiarity of Parliament that the debate title must focus on the west midlands, not simply my - Speech Link
2: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham, Erdington) , and that Labour has pledged to deliver the biggest overhaul to our railways in a generation. - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield) The west midlands transport network is more than just buses, vital as they are. - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) the midlands, benefiting services for users of more than 50 stations. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) New roads and railways make a kind of beeline for those open spaces, since they provide a green field - Speech Link
2: None They are not connecting up the towns and cities of the north, the Midlands or the far north, such as - Speech Link
3: None hundreds of transport projects across the country to drive better connectivity across the north and the Midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) only the immediate Thames valley region, which of course benefits me, but Wales, the south-west, the midlands - Speech Link
2: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) consensus across the House, which includes colleagues I have spoken to from Wales, western England and the midlands - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Just running our railways over the last few years has cost every single household in this country £1,500 - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) with improving the railways by stimulating demand and reducing cost. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) On the railways, it is interesting. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) He is a great expert on these matters.I will speak about railways. - Speech Link
4: 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: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) lists, to deliver lower energy bills, to build more homes and, as we have set out today, to reform our railways - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Elsewhere, in the west midlands, Andy Street has been following Harlow’s example. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The railways transformed Britain, enabling all social classes to travel further, and the network was - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Member for Easington has already said: the home of railways is the Stockton and Darlington railway in - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) East Midlands, Chiltern and CrossCountry are due to modernise their existing fleets. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Katherine Fletcher (Con - South Ribble) As the Minister well knows—he is a dedicated and passionate advocate of the railways—when Merseyrail - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) work he does in the same vein for his constituency.My Department prioritises investments in our roads, railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) Where is the promised guiding mind that will end the railways’ chaotic fragmentation? - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Southeastern, TransPennine and Chiltern railway lines, as well as procurements for fleet upgrades on East Midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) How does the Minister believe Great British Railways and wider rail reform will help to smooth out the - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Thanks to the UK taxpayer, the Government have invested over £100 billion in the railways, and a lot - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) manufactured right now and rolling off the production line up in Derby—South Western trains and East Midlands - Speech Link
4: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) As has been mentioned, it is the home of the railways—200 years ago, the first train went on the line - Speech Link
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