Bus Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I would describe this Bill as a lost opportunity. The last major piece of legislation o...

My Lords, as the Minister rightly said, public transport is essential to communities and ensures ...

My Lords, I hope that when my noble friend the Minister replies to the debate, he will be able to...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young. I agreed with a good two-thirds ...

I was also a member of the Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability, and our repo...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I have tremendous sympathy with ma...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord True. He tempts me to go through my chi...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Woolmer. We were colleagues on th...

My Lords, I too very much welcome this Bill. It is an opportunity to discuss, debate and I hope i...

I am fascinated by, and very sympathetic to, the arguments my noble friend is putting forward. Do...

My noble friend hits the nail on the head. One could say many things about that. The railways mus...

My Lords, it is 16 years almost to the day since I made my maiden speech in this House. At the ti...

My Lords, I very much welcome the introduction of the Bill. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am interest...

My Lords, I declare an interest as leader of Lincolnshire County Council, as in the register of i...

My Lords, I am pleased to make a short contribution to this Second Reading debate. In the light o...

My Lords, I declare my vice-presidency of the Local Government Association. I welcome the Bill, w...

My Lords, over the past two decades we have seen extraordinary increases in rail. The number of t...

My Lords, the great thing about the contributions of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, is that they ar...

My Lords, on this day last year your Lordships gave what is now the Cities and Local Government D...

My Lords, this has been a comprehensive debate, reflecting the comprehensive briefings we have re...

My Lords, I first refer Members to my declaration of interests and declare that I am an elected c...

My Lords, I was not referring to the real-time data—I think that would be highly desirable. My pr...

I thank the noble Earl for that clarification. We will explore these things further as the Bill g...

My Lords, first, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in today’s Second Reading debate. It...

I am grateful to the Minister for taking up my point. I hope that on reflection he will realise t...

As with other provisions, I am sure that we will return to this in Committee. However, I will tak...