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Rail Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

541 c1028-42 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Transport

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Rail Reform
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Written statements
House of Commons

Railways: Reform
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Written statements
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Justine Greening | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting question. I think we all understand that electrification can bring a broad se...

Justine Greening | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) There has never been a better time to be working in the railway industry. We have record investment ...

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Tom Harris | 541 c1035-6 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed in the statement. In the time I have been in the House, I have never heard a minis...

Justine Greening | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate my hon. Friend's kind words. As the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darl...

Hugh Bayley | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I think I am the only Member in the Chamber today who served on the Public Bill Committee that consi...

Justine Greening | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) I was up in Scotland only last week, having some helpful discussions about high-speed rail and impro...

Justine Greening | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) The industry has put substantial investment into improving winter resilience, and of course, having ...

Justine Greening | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) I recommend that the hon. Gentleman read the documents that we have published, which have a lot more...

David Evennett | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement today and the approach to our railways. Does she a...

Daniel Byles | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend and warmly welcome the statement, which shows a clear commitment to imp...

Justine Greening | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) They will not. We have an ambitious programme, as I have said to the House, and high-speed rail sits...

Clive Betts | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Secretary of State will agree that one of the best ways to improve efficiency on the rai...

Justine Greening | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, but I will write to the hon. Gentleman to set that out very soon. I know exactly the proje...

Justine Greening | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it will. That is one of the reasons why it is such an exciting time to be involved in the indus...

Baroness Hoey | 541 c1037 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the reasons why train fares in Europe are much lower than here that many countries sti...

Justine Greening | 541 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that at all. I have a huge amount of respect for the hon. Lady, but this is not the ...

Julian Sturdy | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) McNulty suggested that rail company franchises should be less prescriptive and allow more freedom to...

Justine Greening | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) We need to strike that balance between granting longer franchises so that it is worth train operatin...

Justine Greening | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) Safety will always be of paramount importance as we consider any of these changes. We are currently ...

Matthew Offord | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) The response of the unions to the McNulty report was to make some wild claims in my constituency abo...

John McDonnell | 541 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) I worry about the right hon. Lady using the Ronseal method, because painting over the cracks in the ...

Justine Greening | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) We are not further fragmenting the industry; we are encouraging it to work collaboratively and more ...

Gavin Williamson | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) The ticket office at Codsall station was closed a number of years ago and has been replaced by the f...

Justine Greening | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. A variety of people now use the railways, and the ticketing system needs to...

Gavin Shuker | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) Sir Roy McNulty identified fragmentation in the industry as one of the major reasons why costs in th...

Justine Greening | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. Realistically, his approach would simply involve throwing th...

Justine Greening | 541 c1039 (Link to this contribution) That sounds like a good idea that my hon. Friend's local community might like to take forward. I enc...

Kelvin Hopkins | 541 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) I had the pleasure of meeting Sir Roy McNulty on two occasions after his early conclusion that our r...

Robert Halfon | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Friend's statement and what she said about smartcards. Will she consider ex...

Justine Greening | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware that we earmarked £45 million in the autumn statement to enab...

Bob Russell | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) Fortuitously, this afternoon I am to meet representatives of Network Rail and Abellio to discuss the...

Justine Greening | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the whole point of what we are talking about today: grea...

Brandon Lewis | 541 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. She mentioned the section in the report on train ...

Justine Greening | 541 c1041 (Link to this contribution) It is time to think more innovatively. We should look at how train-operating companies can work more...

Alun Cairns | 541 c1041 (Link to this contribution) The Transport Committee in the previous Parliament accused the previous Government of breathtaking c...

Justine Greening | 541 c1041 (Link to this contribution) We will be moving in that direction. Our aim is first to reduce the above-inflation fares and then t...

Peter Bone | 541 c1041 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State, as I think the whole House will, for making copies of the report ava...

Justine Greening | 541 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We have seen huge increases in passenger demand. What we have heard today i...

Speaker | 541 c1034 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sure the whole House is very grateful for the Secretary of State's comprehensive reply t...

Maria Eagle | 541 c1031-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The question that the Government have yet to answer is this: if we...

Justine Greening | 541 c1032-4 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I listened with interest to what the hon. Lady said and I hope that she would at least ac...

Speaker | 541 c1030 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Secretary of State was listened to politely without Front-Bench heckling and I expect the...

Maria Eagle | 541 c1030 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement and repeat our thanks to Sir Roy M...

Edward Leigh | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. Does the Secretary of State agree that politicians are useless in any industry at picking w...

Justine Greening | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) The Labour party may not be prepared to rule out nationalisation, but I am.

Justine Greening | 541 c1034 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the performance on that line is starting to improve, but the document we are issuing ...

Lord Haselhurst | 541 c1034 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the thrust of my right hon. Friend's statement, but can she offer me some encouragement th...

Justine Greening | 541 c1034-5 (Link to this contribution) We recognise that we need to tackle the underlying inefficiencies in the railways, which Sir Roy McN...

Simon Wright | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State confirm that plans are progressing for the electrification of 800 miles o...

Justine Greening | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I think that the right hon. Gentleman is right. One problem in the past has been that, every time a ...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 541 c1035 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady accept that in this industry successive Secretaries of State have found tha...

Charlie Elphicke | 541 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's determination to put the customer first. Does she agree that for ...

Bob Blackman | 541 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that the RMT has threatened a national campaign of resistance, in...

Justine Greening | 541 c1042 (Link to this contribution) In many respects it has been an impossible situation, and certainly one that cannot continue. We can...

Justine Greening | 541 c1042 (Link to this contribution) I urge everybody to work with us to improve the railways for the sake of passengers and taxpayers. T...

Tobias Ellwood | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) Is it not curious that Labour Members always choose to gloss over their responsibilities when we deb...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 541 c1036 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish Government have just closed their consultation with similar proposals that will involve...

Marcus Jones | 541 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that, alongside the action that she is taking with the rail indust...

Justine Greening | 541 c1028-30 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the railways. Our rail ne...

Louise Ellman | 541 c1034 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's willingness to look at the rail sector overall, but how much fund...

Subjects

Cost effectiveness Costs Capital investment Fares Finance Franchises Railways Passengers Prices Network Rail Reform Tickets

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