Results 101–120 of 2497 for speaker:Lord Snape

Rail Freight: Channel Tunnel - Question (24 Feb 2021)

Lord Snape: My Lords, does the Minister accept that only around 1 million tonnes of through-freight is taken across the Channel on long-distance freight trains from this country, whereas more than 20 million tonnes is taken on 1.6 million lorries? If you add to it the 2.5 million lorries a year thundering down the M20 to use the sea crossing at Dover, leaving these things to—as she puts it—commercial...

Heritage Organisations: Coal Supplies - Question (21 Jan 2021)

Lord Snape: Has the Minister ever travelled behind a steam locomotive? Has he no sense of soul about Britain’s steam heritage? Is he not aware that steam locomotives are temperamental creatures that depend on a certain supply of bituminous coal to work effectively and efficiently? Is he, as a member of a Government who have frozen fuel duties for the past 11 years and done far more damage to the...

Railways: Electrification - Question (19 Jan 2021)

Lord Snape: Will the Minister accept that these things, to use her words, take a long time because successive Governments, including this one, keep putting them off? Would it not make more sense to have a proper rolling programme of electrification that would meet the aspirations of the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, and help bring about stability in the industry for those responsible for electrification?...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Canary Islands: Coronavirus (24 Dec 2020)

Lord Snape: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their decision to remove the Canary Islands from their travel corridor list for the COVID-19 pandemic, what plans they have to renew their advice on holiday travel to that destination.

National Bus Strategy - Question (16 Dec 2020)

Lord Snape: Is the Minister aware that the National Express route 11 in Birmingham is reputed, at 26 miles, to be the longest urban bus route in Europe? In 1979, the journey would timetable at two hours and 10 minutes; by 2020, that had increased, due to congestion, to three hours and four minutes. Would the Minister consider the enjoyment of joining me for a three-hour journey around Birmingham’s ring...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Travel: Coronavirus ( 3 Dec 2020)

Lord Snape: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made by the Global Travel Taskforce on the development of a COVID-19 testing regime for international arrivals and departures to and from the UK; and when such a regime might be implemented.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Global Travel Taskforce ( 3 Dec 2020)

Lord Snape: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made by the Global Travel Taskforce on its objectives; when that Taskforce expects to report; and when they expect to make public its findings.

High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 5 (30 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, I cannot hope to match the oratory of the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, when he moved and spoke to these amendments. I have a great deal of sympathy for what he said, but I urge him and other noble Lords to look at the report from the Select Committee, which took this aspect of the Bill extremely seriously. We heard detailed evidence from the Woodland Trust about biodiversity,...

High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 4 (30 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, I question whether this amendment is appropriate for this Bill. My noble friend Lord Rosser talks about the inadequacies of the transport system in various terms, with examples including Oswestry. With respect to him, HS2 phase 2a, which is what we are supposedly discussing on this Bill, does not go anywhere near Oswestry. I point out to him as gently as possible—I do not want to...

High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 1 (30 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, I am a supporter of this project and congratulate previous speakers on their support for the amendment. I suspect that the amendment comes about as a result of almost a throwaway line from the Minister in Committee. She said, to my surprise—and, I note, the surprise of my noble friend Lord Adonis and, I suspect, some other members of the Committee—that the eastern leg of the...

Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) (Amendment) Order 2020 - Motion to Approve (26 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: I am grateful to the Minister for introducing the orders. However, she did so somewhat blithely, as if these were a couple of routine matters that could swiftly be disposed of—whereas, as my noble friend Lord Pendry outlined, we are talking about events that will have an enormous impact on the county of Kent and elsewhere. There are also some radical departures from what has been accepted...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Passenger Ships: Coronavirus (26 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish the evidence supporting the case for specific travel advice for cruise ships.

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Passenger Ships: Coronavirus (26 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the need to update travel advice for cruise ships.

Travel Agents - Question (23 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: I draw noble Lords’ attention to my entry in the register of interests. Would the Minister accept that the call for a dedicated Minister is no reflection on the way he carries out his own duties? Such an appointment might help to bring sector-specific support for the travel industry, where, as I am sure he is aware, the number of redundancies is now expected to exceed 160,000. Would he...

Department of Health and Social Care: Unpaid Advisers - Private Notice Question (17 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, many years ago, the then political editor of the Sun, Mr Chris Potter, told me that the main qualification for his role was the ability to translate the musings of Ministers at the Dispatch Box for the benefit of his readers without using any words longer than “wheelbarrow”. Now that one of his successors, Mr George Pascoe-Watson, attends confidential departmental meetings, can...

Railways: Fare Structures - Question (17 Nov 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, it is apparent that the Treasury will insist on an inflation-plus increase in rail fares next year. Does the Minister feel that such a policy will attract passengers back to the rail system following the pandemic? Is it not more likely that, given the continuation of the 11-year freeze on fuel duty, more motorists will take to the roads, causing even more congestion and pollution in...

Network Rail’s Enhancements Pipeline - Question (21 Oct 2020)

Lord Snape: The Minister’s noble friend is quite right: Network Rail’s costs are outrageous. Is she aware that, back in 1988, British Rail built a new station at Tutbury on the Derbyshire-Staffordshire border for £80,000? As recently as 1998, Railtrack built four new stations on the Robin Hood line, as well as a new platform and two overbridges, for £5.3 million. Yet Network Rail is now quoting...

Covid-19: Transport Industry - Question ( 6 Oct 2020)

Lord Snape: Is the Minister aware that the coach industry feels particularly aggrieved, having been excluded from the industry-specific grants that have so benefited buses and trains? Is she also aware that long-standing family companies such as Travel De Courcey, based in Coventry, have already gone to the wall because of the economic situation? Can she offer any comfort to these vital parts of our...

Covid-19: Response - Statement (27 Jul 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, may I, for the second time in three days, press the Minister on what information is given or not given to local authorities during this pandemic? Is he aware that in the borough of Sandwell last week there were nearly 100 new cases of Covid-19, of which no fewer than 28 were confirmed at a single workplace in West Bromwich? Is he further aware that these 28 cases were discovered not...

Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 - Motion to Approve (24 Jul 2020)

Lord Snape: My Lords, I will confine my few words to a plea on behalf of local authorities throughout England for information gleaned under the Government’s much-vaunted test and trace programme to be properly shared with those authorities. In the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, the public health director, Dr Lisa McNally, has been campaigning for weeks for better access for her team to...


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