Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)
"The former Secretary of State for Transport also categorically stated in the House of Commons that the valleys lines would be electrified by the end of 2018. There is absolutely no prospect of that happening, is there? Why do Conservative politicians keep making promises that they know they have no …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)
"Is not there another point? If the Government keep on trying to run the state on the cheap, they will end up spending more because they have to buy in agency workers in the NHS and schools, and pay consultants to do work that could have been done in-house. It …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)
"One of the biggest mistakes that the coalition Government made in 2010 was cutting capital budgets. That meant that we did not have the infrastructure in place that we need for a modern economy. That has hit productivity across the whole country...."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Feb 2018
Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales (Morning sitting)
"We had a vote last week on what we will do about the Palace of Westminster, where lots of people were anxious about us spending so much money in London. Is there not a really important thing we could do for every region of the United Kingdom? After Brexit, we …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 12th July 2017
Asked by:
Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question
to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on transferring ownership of the Rhondda Tunnel to the Welsh Government.
Answered by Alun Cairns
I hold regular discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on issues which relate to Wales. The Rhondda Tunnel is part of the Historical Railways Estate which comprises redundant former railway property owned by the Secretary of State for Transport.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport wrote to the Welsh Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure on 24 April this year to indicate that the Secretary of State for Transport was content to transfer the tunnel to the Welsh Government. To date no response has been received from the Welsh Government.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"6. When he expects the electrification of the valleys lines to (a) start and (b) be completed. ..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"That is a pitiful answer. It does not answer the question at all. The former Secretary of State for Transport, the right hon. Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin), who is talking to the present Secretary of State for Transport, told the House in October 2012 that the project …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"Q3. Thirty years ago, I conducted my first funeral as a young curate. It was for a young teenage boy who was an enormous fan of Paul Simon, so, as the crematorium curtains closed, we listened to “The Sound of Silence”, and many people cried. The average cost of a …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 17th December 2014
Asked by:
Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question
to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when he has visited a foodbank.
Answered by Stephen Crabb
My ministerial team and I have visited food banks on a number of occasions over the last year.
I have close links with my local food bank, PATCH, of which I am a former trustee. I have supported PATCH in a number of different ways since it was founded in June 2008.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2014
Government Policies (Wales)
"The single thing that every business man or woman in Wales has said to me is that they want economic security and certainty about the future if they are going to see investment or to make further investment themselves. What is really worrying them is that the Government are playing …..."Chris Bryant - View Speech
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