Written Question
Monday 6th February 2023
Asked by:
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative - Wetherby and Easingwold)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to release safeguarded land in (a) Elmet and Rothwell constituency and (b) the City of Leeds in the context of the cancellation of HS2 Phase 2b.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands set out the Government’s plans for HS2 East from the West Midlands to the East Midlands and committed to considering the optimal way for HS2 to serve Leeds. Terms of Reference for the study will be published soon.
As a result, the Government confirmed it would maintain existing safeguarding and property schemes along the route of HS2 Phase 2b until a decision following this study is taken.
In the meantime, retaining safeguarding provides continued access for affected property owners to the full range of statutory and non-statutory property schemes that are available on the rest of the HS2 route.
If decisions are taken that safeguarded land is no longer essential for future plans, then safeguarding would be lifted and any property acquired in those areas sold.
Written Question
Tuesday 29th November 2022
Asked by:
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative - Wetherby and Easingwold)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with TransPennine Express on making a rest day working agreement with ASLEF.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The Secretary of State met the Managing Director of First Rail on 23 November to discuss the operator’s delivery issues. More generally, the Department through its Rail North Partnership with Transport for the North continues to have regular ongoing discussions with TPE, particularly on managing services in the face of prolonged national and local industrial action, including prospects for reinstating rest day working.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Rail Strikes
"As my right hon. Friend said, billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was put into the railway industry and it kept almost everybody in employment. In my constituency, many businesses survive by servicing the footfall through the stations. Because these businesses employed staff and they were people’s own companies, they …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2022
P&O Ferries
"I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, which has clarified many technical points. It will be important to analyse how the cruise ship industry accesses British waters and to ensure that the critical infrastructure of freight transport is not allowed to be held hostage again, which is what P&O …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Russia’s Grand Strategy
"My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. He has just outlined some weapons that Russia has developed, but does he agree that the recklessness with which it has done so makes them even worse? The nuclear-powered Poseidon torpedo is cooled by seawater, and they feel that some of their …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Russia’s Grand Strategy
"Following on from my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh), it is worth saying that the Kiev International Institute of Sociology did a poll in eastern Ukraine and found that support for Russia had halved from 80% to 40% since Donbass was effectively invaded by Russia.
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Russia’s Grand Strategy
"I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, because he reinforces the point that I am trying to make: this is not just about whether Ukraine should join NATO and whether we should support Ukraine. We have committed ourselves to other countries, but today’s debate seems to be saying, “Well, …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Russia’s Grand Strategy
"I am most grateful to my hon. Friend, who reinforces the point that I was making. This is where we get the Jekyll and Hyde—or the paradox, if you like—of President Trump. In early 2017, there was another chemical weapon attack in Syria and, within a short space of time, …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Sep 2021
International Travel
"I thank my right hon. Friend for everything he has done through this positive statement and his hard work, but I would ask him to clarify two points. Are the lateral flow tests to be taken now instead from day two to be administered at home or at the airport? …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the problems with the HS2 phase 2b eastern leg is that local authorities seem constantly to be adding to the cost? Leeds City Council told HS2 that it could not shut any bridges or roads in the construction, meaning that the line …..."Alec Shelbrooke - View Speech
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