Haulage Permits and Trailer Registration Bill [HL]

My Lords, I had the great privilege and enjoyment of working in the road freight industry for the...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. I acknowledge his experience ...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for introducing her Bill. My noble friend...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Attlee. It takes me back about 20 years...

I am grateful to the House for allowing me to speak in the gap.

I am interested in the way ...

My Lords, I want to intervene only briefly. On 5 December last year, I spoke in a debate on trade...

My Lords, this is a surreal situation. Earlier this afternoon we were discussing outer space, spa...

My Lords, I get a sense from previous speeches—most of which have stolen the contents of mine, so...

My Lords, as always, the experience and knowledge in this Chamber has been extremely insightful, ...

My Lords, are the Government so well advanced in their thinking on the permit scheme that they ha...

We are working with the existing IT system at DVSA, so there would be no additional contract. I c...

If this goes ahead and we have licences here for drivers and trucks to operate on the continent, ...

Certainly not in the context of the Bill. I apologise for going back to this, but exactly what th...

If that is the case and it is all so simple, why have we not endorsed the Vienna convention over ...

We have been relying on the agreement that we have with the European Union, and because we are le...

My understanding is that the tractor unit is subject to the plating and testing regulations, as i...

I believe that to be the case, and that therefore the Bill will not affect safety, but I will cla...

Perhaps I may make a suggestion: that the department bring in operators who were operating in the...

If we can track them down, we will certainly get them in. I thank the noble Lord for that suggest...

Perhaps I can take the noble Baroness back to an earlier point about trailer registration. I do n...

I thank the noble Lord for that suggestion and will go back and study exactly where the safety re...

Perhaps I can assist the House. There is already a system of trailer identification to make sure ...

I thank my noble friend for that clarification.

The noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, and the n...

I understand the Government’s view that these EU papers are just an opening position, but actuall...

We do not currently believe that there needs to be legislation for the maritime and rail sectors....