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Written Question
Train Operating Companies: Standards
Monday 24th October 2022

Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria her Department uses to assess whether a train operating company has provided an acceptable level of services for passengers.

Answered by Kevin Foster

The criteria the Department uses to evaluate the Performance-Based Fee are set out in the ERMA and NRC contracts.

Specifically, this area falls under Operational Performance and Customer Experience/Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality within the overall Scorecard.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Avanti West Coast

"Today I think we have truly gone through the looking glass. We have heard from those on the Government Benches about unofficial strike action, but it is not unofficial, because the Trade Union Act 2016 makes sure that it is not. If Avanti thinks that it is, it has mechanisms …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Rail Strikes

"My hon. Friend is making extremely good points—[Interruption.] Thank you. Does she agree that it is utterly absurd that the Government of this country are petitioning the Opposition Benches to try to resolve these strikes when they would do better getting round the table to resolve the issues themselves?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Rail Strikes

"Shall I repeat it?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Rail Strikes

"Does my hon. Friend agree that it is utterly absurd that the governing party of the United Kingdom is so incapable of running this country that it has resorted to petitioning Her Majesty’s Opposition to resolve this dispute? Would not its time be better spent doing its job and trying …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Jan 2022
Transport Connectivity: Merseyside

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate my good and hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mick Whitley) on securing this hugely important and topical debate.

I will avoid wasting any time mincing my words and get straight to the point: the Minister’s Department, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Jan 2022
Transport Connectivity: Merseyside

"My hon. Friend makes incredibly salient points, all of which I agree with. It is the whole of the north that will suffer under these detrimental plans.

As I was saying, support for HS2 in the north is largely predicated on delivering NPR in full, as promised, so that LCR …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Rail Investment and Integrated Rail Plan

"The Secretary of State talked about leaders and the quotes. I want to touch on the quote of the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotherham. He said that the penny-pinchers at the Treasury have won the day to roll out a “cheap and nasty option”. Isn’t that …..."
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Written Question
High Speed 2 Railway Line
Thursday 9th September 2021

Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the viability of bringing forward phase 2a of HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester; and whether that project is on schedule to be completed on time.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson

On 16 June, the Government published an update on recently approved revised delivery arrangements for HS2 Phase 2a, between the West Midlands and Crewe, predicated on a delivery into service range of 2030 to 2034. These arrangements will be formalised at the next fiscal event, expected to be later in 2021.

Written Question
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Industrial Relations
Monday 21st June 2021

Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the strength of industrial relations at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch

The most recent assessment in relation to the strength of industrial relations was the ballot for industrial action which closed on 11 March 2021. Out of more than 6,000 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency staff, the number of individuals entitled to vote in the ballot was 3,106. Of these, 1,561 individuals voted, 1,114 voted in favour of industrial action, 442 people voted against and there were five spoiled voting papers.