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Concessionary Bus Fares

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

459 c305-27WH 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 459 c322WH;459 (Not in Bound Volume) (Link to this contribution) There are 21 minutes available for the Minister to respond.

Speaker | 459 c314WH;459 (Not in Bound Volume) (Link to this contribution) (in the Chair): Twenty-four minutes remain until the commencement of the winding-up speeches.

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Graham Stringer | 459 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to bring the issue of concessionary bus fares before hon. Members today. I believe that...

Speaker | 459 c315-6WH (Link to this contribution) (in the Chair): There are 47 minutes available.

David Clelland | 459 c314-5WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) on securin...

Clive Betts | 459 c311-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) on securing the ...

Lord Beith | 459 c309-11WH (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) has raised this subject to...

Speaker | 459 c309WH (Link to this contribution) Order. There are 41 minutes left—40 by the time I have finished this announcement—before I call the ...

Mark Hunter | 459 c308WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about perverse incentives. Does he share my concerns that one ...

Graham Stringer | 459 c308-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises the point that I am making in a different way. The main target for bus com...

Lord Beith | 459 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way at this early point. Is there any good reason why other pa...

Graham Stringer | 459 c305-8WH (Link to this contribution) I can think of no good reason in principle. I suspect that as I go through the details of my speech,...

John Leech | 459 c316-9WH (Link to this contribution) I assure you that I shall take up no more than my allocated time, Mr. Cook. I, too, congratulate the...

Speaker | 459 c319WH (Link to this contribution) There are 34 minutes remaining.

Stephen Hammond | 459 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I shall try to take well under half of that time, Mr. Cook, to give the Minister time to reply to so...

John Leech | 459 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to ruin the hon. Gentleman’s joke—

Stephen Hammond | 459 c319WH (Link to this contribution) So am I—it is the only one I have got.

John Leech | 459 c319WH (Link to this contribution) Nevertheless, the debate is timely, because it may give the Minister the opportunity to change her m...

Stephen Hammond | 459 c319-20WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, but the Minister has been extremely generous in pre...

Clive Betts | 459 c320WH (Link to this contribution) The essence of the Government’s proposals is that it should be up to transport authorities to decide...

Mark Hunter | 459 c316WH;459 c315-6WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, Mr. Cook. I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer...

Speaker | 459 c316WH (Link to this contribution) There are 44 minutes remaining, and I appeal to both Opposition Front-Bench speakers to take no more...

Baroness Merron | 459 c325-7WH (Link to this contribution) Perhaps it would be helpful if I turn to Tyne and Wear. I was pleased recently to have the chance to...

Stephen Hammond | 459 c320WH (Link to this contribution) I merely remind the hon. Gentleman that the proposed change to quality contracts will re-enact the s...

Stephen Hammond | 459 c320-2WH (Link to this contribution) No, I have given way twice and I am mindful of your strictures, Mr. Cook. We could rehearse our Seco...

Graham Stringer | 459 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Baroness Merron | 459 c322WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) on securing this...

Baroness Merron | 459 c322-3WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman allows me to continue for a moment, I will gladly give way. I should like to ...

John Leech | 459 c322WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Baroness Merron | 459 c323-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has called for the scheme’s further extension, and I shall be interested to hear ...

John Leech | 459 c323WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is clearly not aware that when the Chancellor introduced in the Budget the decision tha...

David Clelland | 459 c325WH (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend has said about local discretion, but local discretion in the Tyne and Wea...

Subjects

Disability Bus services Concessions Fares Older people

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