Rail

Paul Evans

22 May 2024, Finance Committee

Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 6

I wouldn't add anything to that except to just comment how the threadbare reasons for classifying HS2 as UK wide mostly have become even more threadbare recently.

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Syr Paul Silk

22 May 2024, Finance Committee

Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 6

…more transparency about that would be very helpful. I know that there were justifications made for why HS2 was a project that benefited Wales. They were, from my amateur reading of them, rather threadbare justifications of why it was something that benefited Wales. If what we suggested in our paper…

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Mike HedgesLabour

22 May 2024, Finance Committee

Fiscal Inter-governmental Relations: Evidence session 6

…have problems, though, in terms of what is or isn't generating Barnett consequentials: Crossrail did, HS2 didn't; the London Olympics—the information is in the title—didn't. Coming back to what you were saying, Paul, about Norfolk, HS2 was of no more benefit to Norfolk than it was to Wales, and yet…

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Nicholas Falk

22 May 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Social housing supply: Evidence session 1

…a generalisation, it makes sense, in my view, for the land within, say, a kilometre or half a mile of a railway station, particularly one that's being upgraded, to be acquired for the purposes of development, for mainly housing, if it's not in the middle of a city. You've got examples, like between…

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Nicholas Falk

22 May 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Social housing supply: Evidence session 1

…that in Wales. It is a different job; it’s not so different, but it’s not the same as electrifying a railway line or buying railway stock or whatever. So, I do think that it calls for some kind of partnership, and it’s got to be an organisation that, as I say, has got at least a 20-year perspective…

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Lee WatersLabour

22 May 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Social housing supply: Evidence session 1

…innovation of looking at how it could leverage the land along the metro rather than just building the trains.

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Nicholas Falk

22 May 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Social housing supply: Evidence session 1

…rest of the UK or, indeed, Europe will be aware of what Transport for Wales has been doing through the south Wales metro and other initiatives. I think that is absolutely doing the right things, and the fact that the trains have been bought and are there—I took the rail line up to Pontypridd just to…

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Ken SkatesLabour

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport

…summer. But, ultimately, we're going to be relying again on the UK Government, who are responsible for rail infrastructure, to provide the funding for the necessary works to take place.

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Mike HedgesLabour

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport

…the Minister agree that we need an integrated transport system where buses are scheduled to meet with trains? And again I will ask for Landore station to be reopened to reduce traffic on match days, and reduce city centre traffic.

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Ken SkatesLabour

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport

…all and which we cannot influence, unfortunately? They include the services operated by Great Western Railway. That's a responsibility that is retained by the Department for Transport. In terms of what we are responsible for, the Member will be aware that punctuality has improved quite considerably…

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Altaf HussainConservative

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport

…reliable and truly integrated public transport network. A Swansea bay metro, which is linked to the south Wales metro and provides a regular, reliable service, is vital. As it stands, people can't depend on the train or bus network to travel to major events across the region. Cabinet Secretary, when…

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Ken SkatesLabour

22 May 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport

…ticketing regime? And we'll do that in part through bus franchising, but also through rolling out more railway trains, and that's why the order of £800 million for rolling stock is just so important. Now, in regard to the programmes that are not able to be delivered, there is a variety of reasons…

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