QUESTION 6 TRANSPORT
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and what an important difference lane rental schemes can make to how the most disruptive impacts can be managed and I will certainly
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discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive about lane rental because I know it could make a real
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in that part of the UK as well.
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Thank you, Mr Speaker, and good morning. Question number six, please.
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Thank you. Secretary of State.
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. With your permission, I'd like to answer this question along with question 10. For too long our railways have not
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Great British Railways will bring the management of track and train together.
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Lord Roberts.
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. My constituents rely on the
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to get them in and out of Birmingham. But of an evening, the last train back from Birmingham doesn't run as far as Lichfield, meaning we can't make the
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this trial. I think our publicly owned railways should work in the service of passengers, and I think theseJim Shannon would be a great example of this, and I very much back my hon. Friend's call for this trial to take place.
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We're the only constituency in the capital city without a train station.
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Ofcom or that intergovernmental
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Mr Speaker, it is now for the new Welsh Government to confirm its own contribution to thisprojects so that we can get on and deliver it as quickly as possible. To my knowledge, no such confirmation has been provided to date. I'm really pleased that we confirmed ouryesterday as part of the budget and I would like to congratulate my right hon. Friend for her campaigning on this issue, not just for
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Secretary who's building a major reservoir in my constituency, the Housing Secretary with big plans
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within Cambridge who are in the Chancellor who often talks about the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, securing
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Those are the departments delivering
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on their merits
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Mr Speaker, this government is investing considerably in improving rail services and
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public transport connections in Cambridgeshire. I'd be happy to follow up on the detail of his proposal, but I would just recognise in the east-west rail proposals linking Oxford to Cambridgeshirethe opening of the new station at Cambridge South. There is significant investment going into this part of the country, but I will come back to him on the detail that he raises. Tom Tugendhat.
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Mr Speaker, in yesterday's budget there was one mention of Northern Powerhouse Rail. One of the easiestways to deliver benefit
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for passengers would be to unlock the
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with the service that they they should expect.
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Mr Speaker, as part of Northern Powerhouse Rail, we are prioritizing improvements in the Yorkshire region, services from York to Leeds, between Sheffield and Bradford and
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for the York area capacity study, we will continue to keep all of this under review because we do need to make sure that we're providing the right number of trains where people need them.and when they need them.
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Pennistone line which runs through my constituency servesover half a million people, eight constituencies, six
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four universities and a network of colleges, schools and GP surgeries, but onlyhas one trainour government is funding phase one of
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upgrading this line, but further funding is needed to deliver Phase
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most effectively secures two trains an hour, and will the Minister meet with me ahead of the next spending review todiscussed delivering the full upgrade
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government is making that investment in phase one and I remember discussing this with her when I was at Sheffield station as part of the Northern Powerhouse railearlier this year. I'd be happy to continue those conversations about phase two as we head into the next spending review.
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Much Mr Speaker, my London constituency doesn't have a tube service. My residents are entirely reliant on the South Western
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that we should get far more frequent and reliable services for stations like those.
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The hon. Lady is right to mention the timetable review that is under way, and I'd be happy to
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South Western what the options are with regard to Hampton and Whitton. I would just note one of the benefits of renationalising South Western Railways has
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To reduce the number of cancellations that are coming about as a consequence of the unavailability of staff, we need to get the basics right on Southwestern, um, in
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that she and her constituents deserve.
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Alice Griffith Shadow Minister
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to Mr Speaker, Labour promised that nationalisation
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deliver a more reliable railway
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Two years on, it is getting worse. Between April and June, all government-run operators saw cancellations rise.
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or punctuality fall.
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Ministers say that Great British Railways will
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Turn this around when it
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They promised its implementation timetable and draftconsultation this autumn. On this last sitting day of October, neither has yet
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appeared.
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So when will they?
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Will passengers see the improvements they were promised?
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Speaker, can I start by congratulating the lady on her appointment to the front bench?
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I think this is the first opportunity that I've had chance to do so from the Dispatch Box. She is right in some respects. We do need to make
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more progress on improving punctuality and reliability and I can't pretend that I'm happy with performance across the entirety of the rail network at the moment but what I would gently point out to her is that that at the
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reporting period, cancellations across publicly owned operators were 3.9% compared with compared to 4.9% for operators yet to transfer and still in
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and on punctuality, 82.6% of stops by publicly owned operators were were within three minutes of their scheduled arrival time.compared with just 73.8% for
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Pennine Express was recently announced. Whilst welcome, it has raised some eyebrows with Modern Railways magazineestimating that the cost is
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electric-only trains. It would cost a staggering £25.2 billion for similar deals to replace
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money track with this approach to rolling stock specification and procurement.
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