Results 21–40 of 1849 for speaker:Lord Tunnicliffe

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 25 (15 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I will speak briefly to each of the amendments in this group, a lot of which have what I call a “motherhood” characteristic. In other words, they are self-evidently sensible things to do; the debate is whether these ideas are properly caught by the language or whether, indeed, they need to be on the face of the Bill. Therefore, I would like the Minister to try to answer in two...

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 21 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, we on these Benches have no amendments in this group, largely because the area is so complex and we cannot rustle up anybody bright enough to understand it—I wish I had got a good lawyer. Hence, I would like to thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Bowles, Lady Brinton and Lady Randerson, for making the subject so interesting and explicit. The closest I got to this area was trying to...

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 21 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: Will the Minister copy that to those who have been involved in the debate?

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 2 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: I am not sure I heard the Minister. Did he say that, of the three tests that the Low Commission proposed, the Government’s test of “better than average” was the highest standard?

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 2 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: I am sorry to interrupt, but the Law Commission, in the next paragraphs, says that the “competent and careful driver” test is the highest standard, not the Government’s aspiration of at least on average. We can leave it for now, and the Minister can write to me with an apology, or I can write to him with an apology, if one of us is wrong.

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 2 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: I thank the Minister for his response. I shall read it with enormous care. Perhaps we will have to meet in order to achieve a common view. With that, all that formality requires is for me to beg leave to withdraw Amendment 2. Amendment 2 withdrawn. Amendments 3 to 5 not moved. Clause 1 agreed. Clause 2: Statement of safety principles Amendments 6 to 10 not moved. House resumed. Sitting suspended.

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 2 (10 Jan 2024)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I will also speak to the rest of the amendments in this group. I think someone suggested that this was the safety group; I agree and see it as pivotal to the Bill. Although we all support the idea of this being a vigorous and enthusiastic area of activity, it is not the role of this legislation to tell us how to do it. What is important is what we are seeking to achieve. I will in...

Refurbishing Trains: Contracts - Commons Urgent Question (12 Dec 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: Alstom’s Litchurch Lane factory in Derby has provided high-skilled jobs for generations, but uncertainty over the UK rail industry and the lack of long-term strategy means that those workers are now in jeopardy. The workers are a national asset. People are one of the scarcest assets in this country; an asset that must be looked after to preserve the capability to lead to long-term growth....

Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Regret ( 4 Dec 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, often described as the lifeboat of the UK economy, the merchant shipping industry plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth running of people’s day-to-day lives, aiding the transition of goods and ships while supporting over 180,000 jobs in the UK, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. On the global scale, the industry facilitates the economy through the...

Disabled Air Passengers - Question ( 4 Dec 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, the Government have previously referred to a range of legislative reforms when parliamentary time allows to support disabled air passengers. Will these be introduced before the next general election? If the Minister cannot give that assurance, does that represent the priority that the Government give to this issue?

Battery and Hydrogen-powered Aircraft - Question (30 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, the Hydrogen in Aviation alliance has indicated that Britain is well placed to become a global hydrogen aviation leader, stimulating the economy and providing 100,000 jobs. The alliance announced that this would require a 10-year funding commitment. History shows that the level of continuity required to achieve an entirely new fuel requires state funding as part of any alliance. How...

Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] - Second Reading (28 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I welcome the introduction of this long-awaited Bill to regulate self-driving vehicles. It introduces a legal framework to enable this developing technology in the UK, building on the insurance measures for automated cars in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 and policies set out in the August 2022 paper. Unfortunately, this Bill is not enough to give the public or...

Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023 - Motion to Approve (27 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, the global shift towards zero-emission vehicles presents opportunities and challenges here in the UK. The automotive industry will be at the forefront of each of them, and it will need the support and engagement of the Government to address the challenges and maximise the opportunities. I am therefore pleased that Ministers are turning their attention to new incentive schemes to...

Public Service Obligations in Transport Regulations 2023 - Motion to Approve (27 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I welcome this instrument. The Government are right to permit the making of direct awards for PSO contracts and to ensure that they are able to meet the obligations under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. I have no intention of opposing the regulations. I had a number of questions, but the Minister has already answered most of them—although I will not go as far as saying...

Low-traffic Neighbourhoods - Question (21 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I welcome the Minister to his new role—this is a blood sport and he is the fox. Local authorities held accountable to residents at elections are best placed to decide how to manage traffic in their communities, yet we are now more than four months into a Whitehall-led review of the implementation of low-traffic neighbourhoods. Can the Minister explain how much this review process...

King’s Speech - Debate (6th Day) (15 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, for her courtesy and co-operation. Throughout the time when she was representing the Government in this House, I was a member of the Labour Front-Bench defence team, and it was a pleasure to do business with her. The segments of the King’s Speech on defence were short and vague. It is, of course, never a legislation-heavy area,...

Flying Schools: Liquidation - Question (13 Nov 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, this issue is essentially a financial one. It is a matter of the chaotic planning of pilot training. Ever since the Second World War, there have only been periods of it being properly done. I was trained in the 1960s, paid for by the national airlines. That yielded a group of pilots which has created four decades of ever-increasing safety. Mistakes were made in demand; I was also...

NATS: Staffing - Question (19 Sep 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, this is a very complex and almost unique issue. We have the failure of a small unit, with perhaps three people on duty, impacting on the enterprise as a whole. The problem is: what is the adequate reserve? When NATS took over in October last year, Gatwick saw the need to agree staffing levels. As an increase in staff was needed, recruitment and training were put in hand, but it has...

Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill - Third Reading: Motion (18 Sep 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: My Lords, the committees have exceeded their formal brief for a number of years, which has turned out to be a good thing. That has been partly regularised by terms of reference, but the Bill makes the whole thing formal. Since a good thing is being made formal, we are in full support.

Armed Forces: Remuneration, Housing and Family Support - Question (18 Sep 2023)

Lord Tunnicliffe: To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of reductions in Ministry of Defence day-to-day spending on remuneration, housing and family support for members of the armed forces.


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