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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Sadly, too many local residents and passengers have experienced cancelled and disrupted Avanti West Coast train services over recent months, despite the excellent service of the team at Macclesfield railway station. Can my right hon. Friend confirm that Avanti’s day-to-day operational performance over the period of the new short-term contract …..."
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Written Question
Avanti West Coast: Standards
Thursday 13th October 2022

Asked by: David Rutley (Conservative - Macclesfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to help improve the (a) reliability and (b) frequency of Avanti West Coast train services.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The Department has placed Avanti West Coast on a short-term contract and challenged it to deliver the urgent improvement in services required.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
HS2 Update

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. I was interested to read that high-speed rail services are being considered for rail passengers in Macclesfield and, indeed, in Stoke-on-Trent. Will he tell the House the time within which these decisions are likely to be made, and will he confirm that, whatever …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jun 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. What assessment has been made of the importance of transport improvement and infrastructure projects to the success of the northern powerhouse? Will my hon. Friend provide an update on progress?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 03 Feb 2016
Cycling: Government Investment

"I feel greatly honoured not only to be able to participate in this debate, but to sit next to the former Sports Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Mrs Grant), who was there when the Tour de France came to Yorkshire and who did so …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"T5. Will my right hon. Friend tell us how, with Arriva having secured the new 10-year Northern rail franchise, this will help to improve and support the Government’s northern powerhouse strategy, and, more importantly, how it will help to improve rail services in Disley in the Macclesfield constituency?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I am a Member from the north-west and I have shared platforms with the hon. Lady in the past. Does she not accept that, under the Northwest regional development agency and the infrastructures that her party put in place, the jobs that were created were public sector jobs? We now …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I congratulate my hon. Friend on the powerful speech he is making. Does he also recall that the OBR spelled out very clearly, a year or so after 2010, that it had underestimated the real impact of Labour’s recession?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I wish to add my thanks for the great work that the hon. Member for Taunton Deane (Mr Browne) has done during his service in the House. I worked closely with him in the Home Office and he did an outstanding job as a Minister. His decision to leave the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Jan 2015
Infrastructure Bill [Lords]

"The Minister is making an important speech. He is setting out a very clear strategy, which is absolutely vital. Does he agree that it is not just the investment but the outcomes that will be so important for the nation, particularly in tackling the growing challenge of physical inactivity?..."
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