Rail

Mark DrakefordLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: The UK Budget

…greater flexibility in the management of our own affairs, and to ensure a fair level of investment in railways in Wales, to mention just three. Ministers here will now work with our counterparts in Westminster to secure further gains in the spring: standing up for Wales, uncompromising in our…

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Paul DaviesConservative

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

The proposal therefore is to agree the motion. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Yes, there is objection. I will defer voting under this item until voting time.

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Ken SkatesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

…we've had a disjointed system in place, where you have multiple private operators and then you have Network Rail in charge of the infrastructure. We desperately need integration of trains and tracks, and for that integration to come under full public control. And if we wish to look at the contrast…

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Alun DaviesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

…drive and attack on the public sector—the Conservatives seem content for every Government to own our railways except our own. What we’re doing is sending money overseas and not investing that money in our communities. Let me tell you—and this is why you haven’t got any MPs left in Wales, by the…

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Adam PricePlaid

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

Plaid Cymru welcomes the principles behind the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which seeks to transition franchised passenger railway services, as we've heard, from private to public ownership, which is a long-standing policy goal for us. Our public transport system, we believe…

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Natasha AsgharConservative

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

We of course all want to see improvements made to railway services for the benefit of passengers, but is taking operations into public ownership the right course of action? I'm extremely sceptical, actually, and do not believe it's a step in the right direction at all. In the past, Transport for…

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Mike HedgesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

Diolch. The LJC committee reported on the Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill in mid October. The committee agrees with the Cabinet Secretary’s analysis in the memorandum that clauses 1 to 4 of the Bill as introduced, and its…

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Ken SkatesLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

…the Cambrian line on 21 October, and I thank them and all involved for their hard work. The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill was introduced by the UK Government in July, just weeks after the general election, and it’s moved at pace through the UK Parliament so that Labour…

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Paul DaviesConservative

5 November 2024, Plenary

Legislative Consent Motion: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

We’ll move on now to item 4 on the agenda, namely a legislative consent motion on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill. I call on the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales to move the motion. Ken Skates.

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Delyth JewellPlaid

5 November 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…settlement is less generous than that of Scotland and Northern Ireland. There was complete silence on HS2 consequentials, with Wales's comparability factor for transport shrinking from 80.9 per cent in 2015 to 33.5 per cent in 2024. And calls for the devolution of the Crown Estate were ignored…

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Mike HedgesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Papers to note

…by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, UK Government amendments to the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill. The Cabinet Secretary informs us the UK Government has tabled an amendment to the Bill. The amendment was only tabled in UK Parliament last week, but it is not…

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Lisa Williams

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

…We provide training within the programme that I oversee; the Nutrition Skills for Life programme trains up the wider workforce who are in contact with these families every day so that they are confident to pass on those evidence-based messages. I think that's something that we can make sure we are…

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Tom GiffardConservative

23 October 2024, Plenary

Short Debate: The Welsh Economy: Structural problems and putting them right

…home. Then secondly, to look at transport, we’ve debated at length in this Chamber, including today on HS2, only to see European neighbours like France and Italy and others build high-speed rail infrastructure at a fraction of the cost that we are doing it in the United Kingdom. That is also because…

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