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Commons Chamber
National Networks National Policy Statement - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) , rail and strategic freight interchange projects. - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) out of the atmosphere, which is vital, and can improve road safety and people’s health and fitness. - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) a freight and logistics sector that is economically efficient, reliant, resilient, environmentally sustainable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) who are unable to drive; boosting connectivity for rural communities across the country; transforming freight - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) Almost a million people are employed in the logistics sector, including drivers, delivery drivers and - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield, Heeley) logistics dominate—all jobs that face the highest risks from automation. - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) jobs, but there are 2.7 million jobs in the logistics sector in the UK, and not one of those positions - Speech Link
5: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Other Members have asked what they will mean for operators in the logistics sector and, for instance, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 28 Nov 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Self-driving vehicles could significantly improve the efficiency of passenger and freight traffic on - Speech Link
2: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con - Life peer) It will allow freight to be transported at non-peak hours more easily. - Speech Link
3: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) that suggested that the Office of Rail and Road should be responsible for road safety as well as rail - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) of the on and off-road logistics and road passenger transport could be automated, particularly in rural - Speech Link
5: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The DVSA is already responsible for licensing for passenger service vehicles and freight operators, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Only rail can provide a rapid alternative to cars, reducing road congestion and improving air quality - Speech Link
2: Mike Kane (Lab - Wythenshawe and Sale East) and domestic passenger and freight connectivity for the whole of northern Britain. - Speech Link
3: Antony Higginbotham (Con - Burnley) We have brilliant logistics businesses in Burnley that take the products I have mentioned and send them - Speech Link
4: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) logistics hub for our country. - Speech Link
5: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) kicked down the road as costs mounted up. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) road users that those vehicles and operators are properly licensed and accountable.I move on to discuss - Speech Link
2: Lord Bradshaw (LD - Life peer) Many road-based journeys would transfer from road to electrified rail, particularly if fares were simplified - Speech Link
3: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) logistics infrastructure required; and then they will sign a 30-year offtake agreement. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) chaired by my noble friend Lord Jay.It is against this background that we are now starting out on the road - Speech Link
2: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) areas, but a couple of hundred yards down the road it is simply ignored.I only wish we had someone like - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) rail reform Bill says that it will “improve focus on customers through specific accessibility and freight - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) Even the logistics of forcing someone to appear for sentencing may be very challenging for those required - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 26 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Peter Gibson (Con - Darlington) and £10 million for the North Road station? - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) It is a superb project, which really delivers for freight and ensures that freight can travel from Felixstowe - Speech Link
3: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) for local road maintenance ever—and an extra £4 billion for local road schemes. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) and get on the road? - Speech Link
5: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) and get on the road? - Speech Link
6: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) On heavy goods vehicle road transport in particular, the start of the zero-emission road freight trials - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) In 2014, the Conservative Government decided that a freight terminal the size of 480 football pitches - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Member for St Ives (Derek Thomas) pointed out, the logistics of living in the countryside mean that council - Speech Link
3: None magically our existing road network will take it when people buy those houses and practically all of - Speech Link
4: None presents a huge opportunity by bringing into scope many of the road and rail projects for which our - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Northampton Gateway Rail Freight Interchange: Development Consent Order Waiver - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) of the secondary distribution leg by road through co-location of other distribution and freight activities - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) transportation of goods around the country and supporting modal shift of freight from road to rail. - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) I totally understand how she would see the entire scheme as a road freight logistics warehouse rather - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UK-Mongolian Relations - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) signed membership of that very important organisation, and the logistics and wherewithal of our experience - Speech Link
2: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (CON - Berwick-upon-Tweed) and a road map to a strong and productive future relationship. - Speech Link