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Legislative debate on Thursday, 12 January 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Darling of Roulanish. The answering member was Lord Grayling.

Crossrail Bill

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
441 c447-85 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Crossrail Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 1-EN also published.
Wednesday, 18 May 2005
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Tom Brake | 441 c467-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this short debate on instructions Nos. 2 and 3 to the Select Committee and the motion on l...
Martin Salter | 441 c469-70 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the revised instructions to the Select Committee, but the process is a bit like pulling te...
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Doug Naysmith | 441 c471 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making so clearly the case that I have pressed on the Secretary of State ...
Martin Salter | 441 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) I very much concur with my hon. Friend. Whatever the question is, the answer is not Maidenhead, for ...
Rob Wilson | 441 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman rightly says, there is cross-party agreement across Reading about the concept ...
Martin Salter | 441 c471 (Link to this contribution) The last time I joined the hon. Member for Reading, East was when I was suing him, so I am happy to ...
Lord Pickles | 441 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to be absolutely clear that when the Bill was published and I took legal advice from the Cler...
Clive Efford | 441 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to make a contribution to the debate. My right hon. Friend the Me...
Andrew Rosindell | 441 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that I have spoken on this matter several times, and that the proje...
Rob Wilson | 441 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) My brief comments will be about Crossrail and Reading station, which is in my constituency. As I hav...
Stephen Hammond | 441 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) The motions attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding the instruction as initially set out by th...
Derek Twigg | 441 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) to his new post and the hon. Member f...
Andrew Rosindell | 441 c459 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has pointed out that if Crossrail were to stop at Liverpool Street, it would ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c459 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the two hon. Gentlemen and then come to a conclusion, as this is a two-hour debat...
Mark Field | 441 c459 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be glad to know that I am not going to say anything about Ilford. The th...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c460 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made his speech, too, so we are making progress. I am quite sure that those matte...
Lord Grayling | 441 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I need to keep my remarks short because it is a short debate, or longer becaus...
Mike Gapes | 441 c460 (Link to this contribution) I want to inform the Secretary of State that last week the all-party Crossrail group visited the cha...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c460 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has expressed his views on the placing of the depot at Romford, and the Select Co...
Lord Grayling | 441 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) No doubt the hon. Gentleman will be fighting hard to keep his seat in the run-up to the next electio...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c463 (Link to this contribution) I made it clear in July, and in my speech today, that the Government believe that the Crossrail term...
Lord Grayling | 441 c463 (Link to this contribution) What is completely illogical is that the Government have selected some of the recommendations t...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c463 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman really think it would be wise to truncate Crossrail at Liverpool Street? I a...
Nick Raynsford | 441 c465-7 (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming the progress that has been made, and the fact that the Bill will now go to the ...
Lord Grayling | 441 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall come on to political playthings in a moment. I believe that it is the Secretary of State, ra...
Lord Pickles | 441 c464 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will recall that at column 1136 in the Hansard account of our 19 July debate, the Sec...
Lord Grayling | 441 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) It is not only strange; even if that report did consider Crossrail funding, it would be somewhat ill...
Speaker | 441 c465 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have little over an hour left for this debate, so I make a plea to all right hon. and hon....
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) The point that I made to my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-West was that part of the work...
Peter Luff | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for his courtesy. What additional capacity will be crea...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c454-5 (Link to this contribution) It is kind of my right hon. Friend to tell me that, but it does not come as a surprise to me. I am n...
George Howarth | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) The people I represent will be alarmed by the generosity with which the project is being treated, in...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c455 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman. I know that he will not be happy.
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and for the way in which he expressed his ...
Lord Pickles | 441 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, particularly for trailing this intervention. He will know...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) I am always nervous of those, but I shall let the hon. Gentleman make it.
Lee Scott | 441 c458-9 (Link to this contribution) I also want to support the extension of Crossrail to Ilford. Previously, I was the cabinet member re...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c458 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, we will use whatever way we can find to reduce the environmental impact of construction, ...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 441 c458 (Link to this contribution) May I echo the comments of my hon. Friends the Members for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes), for Hackney, ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c458 (Link to this contribution) It would make a nonsense of the Crossrail proposition if it were to stop at Liverpool Street. The ec...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c459 (Link to this contribution) Let me remind the hon. Gentleman of what I said a few moments ago. Crossrail is a huge project and h...
Mike Gapes | 441 c457 (Link to this contribution) My constituents in Ilford, South and many other residents of the London borough of Redbridge and oth...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c457 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Gentleman is that the Select Committee will decide what it will and will not ...
Lord Pickles | 441 c457 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that it was not in the context of Liverpool Street. His un...
Speaker | 441 c447 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business. Motions 1, 2 and 3 will be debated together.
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c447-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That it be a further Instruction to the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill ...
Martin Salter | 441 c451 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be relieved to know that I support the motion and welcome its tabling, b...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c451 (Link to this contribution) That is the precise area in which I cannot be hard and fast. I cannot tell members of the Select Com...
Diane Abbott | 441 c451-2 (Link to this contribution) The people of Hackney are glad that the Government are making progress on the Crossrail project. The...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c451 (Link to this contribution) That matter would have to be decided. Under the 1992 Act, the applicant would be the operators of th...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) I know about the hon. Gentleman’s specific concern, and he can rest assured that I will give way to ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 441 c450-1 (Link to this contribution) Assuming that the House passes the motion, I welcome the fact that the Select Committee will be give...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c450 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend the Member for Reading, West wants to say how pleased he is that the Governme...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c452 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend and I live to see Crossrail 1, we shall be happy. We can then turn our attention t...
Mark Field | 441 c452 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that it is also the Government’s role, in trying to push the proj...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that they will. For the avoidance of doubt, I have long said that Crossrail would n...
Meg Hillier | 441 c453-4 (Link to this contribution) I echo the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) ...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c453 (Link to this contribution) As I said to my hon. Friend in July, when Crossrail is completed, it will help west country services...
Doug Naysmith | 441 c453 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will recall that, when the matter was discussed in July, the effects of Crossra...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c453 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) is champing at the bit. He will ha...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c452-3 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. That is why we introduced a Bill that established the principle of what the railway woul...
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c459 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman is saying that he has now made his speech, and will not seek to catc...
John Austin | 441 c473-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that all hon. Members agree about Crossrail’s social, economic and environmental importance....
Mike Gapes | 441 c460 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Darling of Roulanish | 441 c454 (Link to this contribution) I should really like to consider Brentwood and Ongar now rather than giving way to the hon. Gentlema...
Subjects
Compulsory purchase Costs Construction Elizabeth line Crossrail Land Legislative process Environment Greater London Freight Powers Property transfer Planning Railway stations Railways Railway network Reading (Berkshire) Underground railways Tunnels Civil engineering Maidenhead Ebbsfleet International Station Petitions
Legislation
Crossrail Bill 2004/05 to 2005-06 to 2006-07 to 2007-08
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