Results 21–40 of 2000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Louise Haigh

Transport: Topical Questions (13 Jul 2023)

Louise Haigh: Does the Secretary of State think it is acceptable that the villages of Little Ouseburn and Beal, in the Selby and Ainsty constituency, have no bus service either in the evenings or on Sundays? Who does he hold responsible for that? Is it the Tory Government, which completely snubbed Selby and Ainsty in their bus strategy, the Tory council, which cut 1 million km of subsidised bus routes, or...

Automotive Industry (12 Jul 2023)

Louise Haigh: This has been an excellent debate, informed by real experts from across the House who are clear champions of their constituencies and of the automotive industry. I think the House can agree, following today’s debate, that our automotive industry is truly the crown of British industry. However, I would say very gently to the Minister that her speech really did sound out of touch with the...

Automotive Industry (12 Jul 2023)

Louise Haigh: He did.

Rail Ticket Offices ( 6 Jul 2023)

Louise Haigh: (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State if he will make a statement on plans to close rail ticket offices.

Rail Ticket Offices ( 6 Jul 2023)

Louise Haigh: Yesterday, the Rail Delivery Group confirmed plans to close hundreds of rail ticket offices across the country but, this morning, as is usual when difficult decisions are made, the Secretary of State was nowhere to be seen. This announcement, driven every inch of the way by his Department—not the industry, as the Minister claimed—has caused huge anxiety to vulnerable and disabled...

Transport: Great British Railways ( 8 Jun 2023)

Louise Haigh: I associate the Opposition with the Secretary of State’s comments. We send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of the terrible tragedy in India. Over the past year, passengers have faced total chaos on our railways. Cancellations rose to their highest ever levels. Strikes have disrupted countless journeys, while the Transport Secretary still refuses to sit down with the unions. The...

Transport: Great British Railways ( 8 Jun 2023)

Louise Haigh: The Secretary of State has some nerve accusing Labour of tax rises and interest rate rises after his party crashed the economy last year, presided over funding cuts to buses and pushed most of the road-building projects promised in his manifesto to later down the line. The Secretary of State’s predecessor, the right hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps), admitted that our rail...

Buses: Funding (17 May 2023)

Louise Haigh: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. Our bus services are in crisis. Bus users across the country listening to the statement today—waiting for a bus that never turns up and robbed of a service they depend on—will be wondering, frankly, whether the Minister is oblivious or in denial, and whether he understands the scale of the...

Rail Services (11 May 2023)

Louise Haigh: I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. After years of comprehensive failure, after tens of millions in taxpayer cash has been handed to an operator so clearly not fit for purpose, after needless damage has been wrought on the northern economy and more than six months after Labour demanded it, the Tories have finally accepted that they can no longer defend the...

Transport: Repairing Potholes: Funding in Spring Budget 2023 (20 Apr 2023)

Louise Haigh: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Sometimes you just have to admire the brass neck of the Conservative party. As Chancellor, the Prime Minister personally slashed the pothole budget by £400 million, which is enough to fill 8 million potholes. Lined up side by side, that giant Tory pothole would stretch from here to John O’Groats and back again. Will the Minister accept that after 13 years, the...

Transport: Topical Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Louise Haigh: Last year, the Prime Minister said: “Smart motorways are unpopular because they are unsafe.” Yet last week he confirmed that he would leave 400 miles- worth in place. Will the Secretary of State tell the House how many breakdowns were missed by the stationary vehicle detection system on our smart motorway network last year?

Transport: Topical Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Louise Haigh: The combination of smart motorways and faulty technology is giving drivers serious cause for concern. Last year, more than 4,000 breakdowns were missed by that faulty technology. That shocking statistic shows that motorists have been left at risk by the Government’s shambolic roll-out of smart motorways. Will the Secretary of State do the right thing and urgently reinstate the hard shoulder?

Rail Services (20 Mar 2023)

Louise Haigh: I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. What a relief it is to see him in his place. Since he announced huge changes on HS2, affecting billions of pounds of investment and jobs, costs to the taxpayer and particularly affecting the north of England, this is the first we have seen or heard from him. You can call the search party off, Mr Speaker. I welcome the deal on...

HS2: Revised Timetable and Budget (14 Mar 2023)

Louise Haigh: Eighteen months ago, the Government slashed Northern Powerhouse Rail, binned HS2 to Leeds and sold out the north of England. Here we are again: huge changes affecting billions in investment and jobs announced at 5 pm on Thursday—minutes before the House rose. We now know why the Secretary of State was desperate to dodge scrutiny: I have a leaked document written by his most senior officials...

Transport: Rail Modernisation ( 2 Mar 2023)

Louise Haigh: TransPennine Express has been providing unacceptable levels of service to the north and the midlands for years—well prior to covid—and now they are at truly dire levels. The operator of last resort has made it clear to the Transport Committee that it has capacity and can bring TransPennine Express under its remit. Is the Secretary of State confirming that for ideological reasons he will...

Transport: Rolling Stock Manufacturing: North-east England ( 2 Mar 2023)

Louise Haigh: Last month I was delighted to visit the Hitachi Rail manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, where 800 highly skilled employees are delivering world-class manufacturing excellence. They told me that they need certainty from the Government, but briefings, leaks and rumour about the future of HS2 are pouring out of this Department. Will the Minister categorically deny that his Department is...

Transport: Topical Questions ( 2 Mar 2023)

Louise Haigh: Name them!

Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]: Clause 18 - General interpretation ( 7 Feb 2023)

Louise Haigh: This House agreed last March that the action taken by P&O Ferries was a national scandal. As the Minister said, 800 British workers were sacked with no notice. It was the reality of a business model that has been allowed to prevail on our seas for far too long—a business model predicated and dependent on exploitation. As the Minister knows, Labour supports the Bill’s limited provisions,...

Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords]: Clause 18 - General interpretation ( 7 Feb 2023)

Louise Haigh: I am grateful for that intervention. I accept that the scope of the Bill is limited, but it was introduced as an opportunity to address the issues that were highlighted so egregiously in the case of P&O Ferries, so it is a major missed opportunity for the Government not to at least have published it alongside the Bill. In closing, Britain is a proud seafaring nation. That tradition has been...

Transport: Bus Services: Newcastle (19 Jan 2023)

Louise Haigh: In March 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, the previous Secretary of State promised buses so frequent that people would not need a timetable and said that the Government would “not only stop the decline”— in bus services, but— “reverse it”. —[Official Report, 15 March 2021; Vol. 691, c. 50.] Since then, have bus services increased or decreased?


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