Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) support the continuation of the whole system, as noble Lords have mentioned, rather like we have on the railways - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (LAB - Life peer) It has attracted the interest of both the Midlands Engine and Midlands Connect in the North Cotswold - Speech Link
3: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) The lowest was the east Midlands, at £300 per head. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) I have always had an ambition that this country would have a network of local services in the Midlands - Speech Link
2: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) After more than a decade of this Government, railways in the north and the Midlands are broken.Despite - Speech Link
3: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) , is looking at that 30-year vision for our railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (CON - Forest of Dean) Today, I am pleased to provide an update on this Government’s plans to reform our railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None but to run a much-reduced timetable, with fewer trains per hour from London to destinations in the Midlands - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (LAB - Life peer) of public transport, which could then transform our ambition to achieve net-zero emissions, we need railways - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) That is the important thing: the Government have taken responsibility for how the railways are run.However - 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: Heather Wheeler (CON - South Derbyshire) He has used the phrase “Great British Railways” a number of times. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) yet another competition—more of the begging-bowl culture that Andy Street, the Tory Mayor of the West Midlands - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) matters to my community in York.On hearing about Great British Nuclear, I think of the Great British Railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None It is noteworthy that the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, cited the Tory Mayor of the West Midlands. - Speech Link
2: None combined county authority established under section 7(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023;”Railways - Speech Link
3: None ), after “combined authority”, in each place where it occurs, insert “or combined county authority”.Railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) covering 2021-22—show that the lowest per capita public spending in the nations and regions is the East Midlands - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (CB - Life peer) Thus, I am looking forward to primary legislation to create Great British Railways. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) The integrated rail plan is £96 billion of investment going to the north and the midlands. - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) He is right that, as a pioneer of our great railways, it is a tragedy that we do not have a high-speed - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) white elephant in the Tory circus should have resulted in a £1-billion investment in Wales’s gutted railways - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) As you well know, Mr Speaker, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II appreciated the importance of railways - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) Let me reiterate the funding model relating to Network Rail and the way in which we have managed our railways - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bach (LAB - Life peer) In the West Midlands, that support is not forthcoming. - Speech Link
2: None In the West Midlands, the police have a budget of £680 million. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Secretary of State to make regulations to confer on a combined county authority a power to designate railways - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) I am grateful to the Minister for what he said about roads and railways, and the control and leadership—if - Speech Link