Mentions:
1: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Narrow gauge and heritage railways are important for our tourism sector. - Speech Link
2: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) He told me that there are no narrow gauge railways like that, if at all, in France. - Speech Link
3: Fay Jones (Con - Brecon and Radnorshire) Friend is, of course, right: Wales’s narrow gauge railways are part of our unique tourism offer, so it - Speech Link
4: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) Whether he has had recent discussions with the Mayor of the West Midlands on economic growth in that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) First, I accept on the basis of my experience of railways that it is likely that these vehicles will - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) such as cybersecurity, simulation and machine learning; establishing new facilities in Bristol and the Midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) more to returning full business rates to the combined authorities in Greater Manchester and the west midlands - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) The announcement of three new investment zones, including one in the west midlands, is especially welcome - Speech Link
3: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) Buses, railways, healthcare, sustainable energy and other such initiatives in Wales are desperate for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) and, through trailblazer devolution deals, pay-as-you-go pilots in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) Great British Railways has, it seems, been kicked into the long grass but one aspect, ticketing reforms - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) The answer was to set up Great British Railways, which would have new powers to deal with this question - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) it is high time that the public good was put ahead of private profit in respect of ownership of our railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) will be familiar with this from her previous role—to enable open defined-benefit schemes, like the railways - Speech Link
2: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) levelling-up agenda, the Government can never claim to have truly succeeded in their mission to level up the midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) regional basis: in the east of England, there has been one death and 11 serious injuries; in the east Midlands - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) Last year’s Queen’s Speech promised us an omnibus transport Bill to create Great British Railways and - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) As for the railways, they are in a terrible mess. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) inclusion in the King’s Speech of a draft rail reform Bill is welcome, not least because Great British Railways - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) It recommended the formation of Great British Railways, and ever since then Secretaries of State and - Speech Link
3: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) improving journeys and infrastructure between and within the towns and cities of the north and the midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) the millions of everyday journeys that matter most to the British public.By stopping HS2 in the West Midlands - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) This year, the links to Manchester and the east Midlands have been dropped.The UK currently has 113 kilometres - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Lab - Life peer) provide a guiding mind over the railways’ various operations. - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (Lab - Life peer) what the Government intend to do by way of compensation for this blow that they have landed on the Midlands - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That is a lot of complexity.The trailblazers—deals for Greater Manchester and the West Midlands—were - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) is simply ignored.I only wish we had someone like Andy Street, magically transferred from the West Midlands - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) We became friends 50 years ago, when I was trespassing from the Welsh circuit on to the Midlands circuit - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) Yesterday we had the confirmation of the level of service that will be required on the railways under - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) Yorkshire Day is 1 August, so not for the first time they have got things wrong.The arrival of the railways - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) expensive project that failed to meet people’s real needs—is now being invested in the north, in the midlands - Speech Link
3: Stephen Flynn (SNP - Aberdeen South) about nationalised water in Scotland, and it is not just water that is nationalised in Scotland; our railways - Speech Link
4: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) year, which was widely applauded in the industry and wider as a way forward for the renaissance of railways - Speech Link