Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Flybe
"My Lords, the discussion to date has, necessarily, been a sticking-plaster type of discussion; and noble Lords have raised other airports and operators that may in future require such sticking-plaster announcements. Can the Minister confirm that some sensitivity analysis is under way to identify where problems could arise in future? …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 12th December 2018
Asked by:
Lord Fox (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the development of an open and competitive “mobility as a service” market.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The recent Future of Mobility Grand Challenge Call for Evidence asked respondents to raise market and regulatory considerations for new mobility services, including Mobility as a Service. The Government is currently considering the evidence and will publish its response early next year.
Written Question
Wednesday 12th December 2018
Asked by:
Lord Fox (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have taken steps to encourage relevant service providers to develop a common ride hailing protocol; and if so, what discussions, and with whom, they have had to this end.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The Government supports choice for consumers, and wants to see both taxis and private hire vehicles prosper. The means by which these services are engaged is, subject to meeting the relevant legislative requirements, a matter for the operator and the user.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Dec 2017
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (Science and Technology Report)
"My Lords, it is always preferable to speak first in these debates, because to follow such a daunting array of knowledge is difficult.
For anybody who did not sit on the committee, it must be clear by now that this report was not prepared autonomously. It was not a driverless …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"My Lords, names of Members from our Benches are not attached to these amendments, but we would like to associate ourselves with all four of them. I want to say a few words about safety because it is obviously not in the industry’s interest to operate unsafely; in fact, quite …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"The nature of this work, certainly in the early stages, could be quite lumpy. In earlier discussions —at Second Reading, I think—the Minister talked about perhaps only 12 launches a year. There could be moments of great intensity of activity followed by no activity and therefore no income. How will …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"The noble Lord has stolen many of my lines. There seem to be a lot of loose ends here. I reiterate his question about how much of the Bill applies to a Crown dependency in the event that it builds a spaceport. Are we looking just at the right to …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"Just to be clear, the money that has been put aside to provide seedcorn for this process would not be available to Crown dependencies—is that true?..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"I think £10 million was put aside to help develop the cases for spaceports. Would this money be available to Crown dependencies or just to the UK mainland?..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Nov 2017
Space Industry Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I once again associate myself fully with the comments that have just been made. I am still struggling with the “anything necessary” line. Having defended those words so spiritedly in Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Callanan, is now escaping. Are we looking at enforcement at an economic level …..."Lord Fox - View Speech
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