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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"Yes, they are. Licensing authorities can ask for such information but my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington is trying to mitigate the fact that that process does not show whether drivers have had not necessarily criminal convictions but suspensions or revocations because they have not kept their vehicle up …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (James Wild) first...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"I shall respond to that excellent point after I have given way to my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"I thank both my hon. Friends. I have taken a double-header; I shall respond first to my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk, who makes a good point. There is of course an appeals process in the existing licensing regime and the Bill will not harm it at …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"I thank my hon. Friend, who is an expert on the Bill because he wrote it, for that clarification. He will have reassured Members from all parties and has just added to the reasons why the Bill should be passed today...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"My hon. Friend tempts me to hark back to my career in local government around 12 years ago—[Interruption.] I know I do not look old enough, as someone very kindly said. I do not think the Bill will have an impact on the number of cases that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill

"As usual, in two minutes my hon. Friend has made the point in a much more succinct and concise way than I have in 12, and I am sure that will happen again in our mutual careers over the next few years. He never knowingly undersells something with fewer words …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Nov 2020
Aviation Industry

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) on securing the debate. It is good to see the Minister in his place; he visited Southampton airport within days of becoming the Minister, for …..."
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Written Question
Railway Stations: Hedge End
Tuesday 27th October 2020

Asked by: Paul Holmes (Conservative - Hamble Valley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of passengers using Hedge End train station in each of the last ten years for which figures are available.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris

The Office of Road and Rail (ORR) publish annual estimates of the number of entries/exits and interchanges for Hedge End, and all other stations in Great Britain.

This information is openly available on the ORR data portal https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Oct 2020
Hedge End Train Station: Accessibility

"I rise to raise with the Government an issue that has been a long-standing concern of my constituents living in Hedge End, Botley, West End and Fair Oak, and that is the lack of accessibility at Hedge End train station in my constituency. It is good to see present in …..."
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