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McNulty Report and West Coast Rail

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

528 c520-34 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 528 c534 (Link to this contribution) Surely the Secretary of State must accept that fragmentation costs more. For example, I understand t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c534 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has obviously read the RMT press release from this morning. Of course there are additi...

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Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c533 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's question, which allows me to make an important point. Integra...

Andrew Jones | 528 c533 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on this encouraging report. What are the prospects for improve...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c534 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. As I mentioned earlier, an announcement was made r...

John McDonnell | 528 c531 (Link to this contribution) I refer to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. On a constituency matter, with ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c531 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to pre-empt the rail fares policy review, to which I am sure that my hon. Friend will ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 528 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's approach to the west coast main line franchise. As has been said,...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c531 (Link to this contribution) I will have to disappoint the hon. Gentleman on creeping re-nationalisation: there is not one, and I...

Kelvin Hopkins | 528 c532 (Link to this contribution) I had the pleasure of meeting Sir Roy McNulty on two occasions during his consultation. I put to him...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c532 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, the intention is to be less prescriptive. Train operators already have the freedo...

Lord Evans of Rainow | 528 c532 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this report and the associated cost reductions on the west coast main line. We can learn f...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c532 (Link to this contribution) I am not. I think the hon. Gentleman suffers from the disease—which I have noticed is quite widespre...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) In all this emphasis on devolving and transferring responsibility to train operating companies, does...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c532 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The High Speed 2 business case and the build and running costs put forward in the consultation ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I had a productive meeting with him, some of his parliamentary colleagu...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to tell the hon. Gentleman that franchising policy in Wales is a matter for ...

Jonathan Edwards | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) What consideration has been given to a Welsh franchise based on a not-for-profit model operated by t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. High-quality rail services deliver major economic benefits to the towns the...

Amber Rudd | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) Wages in Hastings have fallen dramatically against the rest of the south-east in the past 10 years, ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c530-1 (Link to this contribution) I can say that they are unfounded. By the way, the right hon. Gentleman made the case for High Speed...

Bob Ainsworth | 528 c530 (Link to this contribution) The west coast main line has improved dramatically over the years in both capacity and reliability, ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c530 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. The fact that the Great Western franchise will be re-let in 2013 will enable us to b...

Duncan Hames | 528 c530 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the greater autonomy for Network Rail route managers in the Wessex area, because rail pass...

Philip Hollobone | 528 c531 (Link to this contribution) One of the understandable grumbles of the Kettering rail users group is that for historical reasons ...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c527 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I have to put it to him slightly differently: the savings w...

Edward Timpson | 528 c528 (Link to this contribution) Although I understand the reasons behind the delay in the decision on the west coast main line franc...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c528 (Link to this contribution) A good old Labour contribution from below the gangway! Sir Roy McNulty did look at the options of gr...

Jim Cunningham | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) I note what the Secretary of State said about subsidies and fares—we will return to that later in th...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c529 (Link to this contribution) I thought, at the beginning of my hon. Friend's question, that perhaps he had missed what I said abo...

Barry Sheerman | 528 c528 (Link to this contribution) Does Sir Roy's report which, from what the Secretary of State has said, is very stimulating and inte...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c528 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. The proposal that we have put forward—as he will see ...

Marcus Jones | 528 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) Following the work of the last Government, there are no fast off-peak services on the west coast mai...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c528 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will have been pleased by the announcement that we made recently a...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c524 (Link to this contribution) I might get some guidance from you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on whether it is appropriate for me to respon...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c520-2 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the publication today of Sir Roy...

Julian Huppert | 528 c527 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this report and congratulate Sir Roy McNulty on it. Commuters and other travellers have su...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c527 (Link to this contribution) I have already made a statement to the House on the economics of the electrification from Cardiff to...

Geraint Davies | 528 c527 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of value for money and rail electrification, can the Secretary of State undertake to ha...

Robert Buckland | 528 c526 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that for many Swindon residents travelling to and from London to wo...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for that very helpful guidance. I am grateful for the hon. Lady's com...

Speaker | 528 c524 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is up to the Secretary of State which points he wishes to answer.

Ian Lavery | 528 c527 (Link to this contribution) The McNulty report did not seriously consider the possibility of the reintegration of the rail syste...

Maria Eagle | 528 c522-4 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Secretary of State for early sight of his statement. May I place on record t...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 528 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) There are two things that I can say to my hon. Friend. First, if we do not address the challenges th...

Subjects

Cost effectiveness Fares Finance Franchises Railways Network Rail Subsidies Train operating companies West Coast main line Office of Rail Regulation Commuters Rail Value for Money Review

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