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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 10 October 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Ian Stewart. The answering member was Baroness Merron.

Bus Services

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on bus services.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
450 c1-24WH 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Transport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Ian Stewart | 450 c1-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have secured the debate. October seems to be my lucky month. In October 2002, I ha...
Meg Hillier | 450 c8-9WH (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to speak in the debate and, in particular, to welcome the announcement ab...
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Graham Stringer | 450 c2WH (Link to this contribution) I have followed my hon. Friend’s arguments with great care. He makes a good point about investment i...
Ian Stewart | 450 c3WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I accept my hon. Friend’s important point. I admit to having served on the Standing Com...
Mark Lazarowicz | 450 c3WH (Link to this contribution) I am fortunate to represent a constituency that is served by the largest remaining municipally owned...
Ian Stewart | 450 c3-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that contribution. As I shall say later, no single model is applicable to...
Speaker | 450 c6WH (Link to this contribution) Order. This is the first time that I have heard an opening speech end on a commercial. I intend to ...
Paul Truswell | 450 c6-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on securing the debate. As he said...
Iain Wright | 450 c9WH (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart), my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, Sout...
Meg Hillier | 450 c9-10WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and I shall go into the matter later. There are good exa...
Jim Sheridan | 450 c10WH (Link to this contribution) On conditions for bus drivers, does my hon. Friend agree that the bus service, warts and all, is one...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c16-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on the eloquent and passionate way in which ...
John Grogan | 450 c15WH (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. I urge the Minister to continue to be bold and to go dow...
Paul Rowen | 450 c15-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on securing the debate and the other hon. Me...
John Grogan | 450 c15WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The passenger transport authority in west Yorkshire, with its creative and visionary leader...
Mark Lazarowicz | 450 c15WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I was out of the room for a few minutes when my hon. Friend the Member for Central A...
John Grogan | 450 c13-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow a passionate speech from a Yorkshire MP. It is one of several that ...
Brian H Donohoe | 450 c11-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on securing the debate. Again, it ...
Clive Betts | 450 c12-3WH (Link to this contribution) I do not see the impact of deregulation on services in south Yorkshire since 1986 from the perspecti...
Meg Hillier | 450 c10-1WH (Link to this contribution) As a trade unionist I believe in equal pay for equal work, and my hon. Friend made a fair point. In ...
Paul Truswell | 450 c19WH (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the key distinctions between the situation in London and that elsewhere that the peopl...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c19-20WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes much of what Londoners may vote for. I hear consistently from my constituen...
Meg Hillier | 450 c18WH (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would like to comment on the actions of Barnet council, and in p...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c18-9WH (Link to this contribution) If I understand rightly, Mr. Coleman has tried two experiments in Barnet, the other one of which is ...
Meg Hillier | 450 c19WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned concessionary fares. Could he outline his party’s policy on free travel...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c19WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to talk about pricing for families, because I was coming to that point. There are some pr...
Graham Stringer | 450 c17WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman’s speech and would be interested to hear what evidenc...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c17WH (Link to this contribution) Both the PTE and the bus operator in the hon. Gentleman’s own area have taken full-page adverts in t...
Clive Betts | 450 c17WH (Link to this contribution) Just to recap on what the hon. Gentleman is saying, is it now Conservative party policy to favour fr...
Stephen Hammond | 450 c17-8WH (Link to this contribution) We can have franchising within the quality contract. Various other areas are available as evidence ...
Baroness Merron | 450 c22-3WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed, I pay tribute to those improvements. I would always say that there are things to be learned ...
Meg Hillier | 450 c22WH (Link to this contribution) On one issue, though, does my hon. Friend agree that London is a great example? Pay, conditions and ...
Baroness Merron | 450 c20-1WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there are no surprises. We are not going back to re-regulation...
Paul Rowen | 450 c20WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not accept that I said that we wholeheartedly supported re-regulation and talked a...
Baroness Merron | 450 c23-4WH (Link to this contribution) I will not take my hon. Friend’s intervention, as I have only a few minutes. Hon. Members can take ...
Baroness Merron | 450 c20WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Ian Stewart) on securing this debate and provid...
Subjects
Contracts Bus services Fares Franchises Pay Staff Regulation
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