Written Evidence Jan. 10 2024
Inquiry: Accessible transport: legal obligationsFound: another case, we found that the correct ramps were not being deployed for passengers to board Chiltern Railways
Mentions:
1: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) The Government are committed to reforming the railways and ensuring that they are customer focused and - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) We are also working with the Great British Railways transition team to assess options to decarbonise - Speech Link
3: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) We are investing £6.5 billion pounds of savings from HS2 outside the north and midlands, which will benefit - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) We are determined to see private sector involvement in the railways continue. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: submitted by Transport East (RRB0027) The UK Government has put forward a plan for the future of railways
Mentions:
1: Lord McLoughlin (CON - Life peer) If we are to see more people and more freight using our railways, capacity is desperately needed. - Speech Link
2: Lord Snape (LAB - Life peer) Is it not about time we took a leaf out of the book of the French railways? - Speech Link
3: Lord Haselhurst (CON - Life peer) Secondly, the expectations of people in the north and the east Midlands will feel betrayed.It is very - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab - Life peer) New roads and railways make a kind of beeline for those open spaces, since they provide a green field - Speech Link
2: None They are not connecting up the towns and cities of the north, the Midlands or the far north, such as - Speech Link
3: None hundreds of transport projects across the country to drive better connectivity across the north and the Midlands - Speech Link
Mar. 07 2024
Source Page: I. The Plan for Rail. A consultation on legislation to implement rail transformation: Government response. 106p. II. Draft Rail Reform Bill. 32p.Found: benefitted from the successful implementation of the December 2022 timetable change in the West Midlands
Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) piles of evidence through the operator of last resort and Scotrail that publicly owned and operated railways - Speech Link
2: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) demand.I would add that there is some awareness that in relation to services to Milton Keynes, west midlands - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) has been enough improvement to justify up to a decade more of the utter chaos that is consuming our railways - Speech Link
4: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) If the alternative that the Labour party is proposing is the nationalisation of our railways, I look - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) We urgently need a body to provide oversight and accountability to fix Britain’s broken railways. - Speech Link
Jan. 28 2009
Source Page: Table showing property on the e-PIMS database, broken down by address, and by whether the floor-space is used or vacant, together with a description of the vacant space. 753 p.Found: Further information on request.Department for TransportDFT - BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD (RESIDUARY) LTDTHE
Jun. 03 2008
Source Page: Updating the scope of the Railway Heritage Committee and updating its membership: consultation paper. 24 p.Found: as such on 21 November 2005.The role of the RHC is to fidesignatefl records or artefacts relating to railways
Jan. 08 2008
Source Page: Table showing Government department property, (a) total floor area and (b) vacant space recorded on the electronic property information mapping service database for each Government department and agency. 11 p.Found: - COMPETITION COMMISSION8258.0Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory ReformDBERR - EAST MIDLANDS