Rail

Lesley GriffithsLabour

12 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

…focus on issues and connect better with stakeholders. We are investing £800 million on brand new trains and, of course, that will benefit services right across north Wales going forward, and those trains are now coming into operation. And I do think that's in very stark contrast to the UK Government…

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Gareth DaviesConservative

11 July 2023, Plenary

Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the Government’s priorities and legislative programme

…people's daily lives across Wales, from health and social care, our local councils, roads, transport, trains, buses, taxis, childcare provision—I could go on—but the point I'm making is that the principle of devolution, and the key decisions being made close to home, is a wonderful idea, and most…

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John GriffithsLabour

11 July 2023, Plenary

Debate: Welsh Government Annual Report—Delivering the Government’s priorities and legislative programme

…role in greening our public transport system. The Welsh Government has invested £800 million in new trains and providing funding to decarbonise our buses to make transport as green as possible. I recently visited CAF in my constituency, where many of the new trains will be built, and we are very…

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Ken SkatesLabour

11 July 2023, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…other people who face disabling barriers in life hugely value the presence and assistance of staff at railway stations. Would you agree with me, therefore, that it'll be a source of reassurance to them to hear that Transport for Wales have no plans whatsoever to reduce the number of staff at…

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Mick AntoniwLabour

10 July 2023, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution

…formula, et cetera, the consequentials, are being properly dealt with. It might be something to do with HS2, for example, in terms of would that be—. So, those are things that are happening. But they're also things that might be common across the different devolved Governments, and so on. So, those…

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Amanda Blakeman

10 July 2023, Equality and Social Justice Committee

The public health approach to preventing gender-based violence: evidence session 7

…also do work with our transport companies. We do provide a visible presence in relation to the buses, trains et cetera, so that we are able to identify again those behaviours, those predatory individuals, and we also work in terms of training staff. So, there is quite a lot that goes on in terms of…

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Mark DrakefordLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

…though this is going to be an easy thing, because the challenge in the bus service is greater than in trains in terms of recovery of passenger numbers. Trains are getting back quite close to the numbers they carried—not in the same pattern; people are not using them in the same way, but, in…

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David ReesLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

…it's not just north Wales; I'm getting more constituents complaining about the Transport for Wales trains going, actually, to the north-west of England and north Wales than I've ever had before, so it's an issue that clearly needs to be addressed across Wales, full stop. Jack.

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

…Wales Rail then, because Transport Focus, which represents passengers, has rated Transport for Wales Rail services as joint bottom place for overall satisfaction alongside TransPennine Express? That's not good, is it?

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Mark DrakefordLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

I want to make a distinction, if I can, Chair, between the people we work with day in, day out at Network Rail, where I think we have a good relationship, and Transport for Wales works closely with them. In that, 'What can we do within the constraints that Network Rail on the ground faces?', I think…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

In the meantime, we're stuck with relying on Network Rail to repair the main railway network up in north Wales. My own experience of the chaos created around the signalling system at Prestatyn, which is affecting the whole of the network, I don't doubt—. What conversations are we having with Network Rail…

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Jack SargeantLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

…on, really—. My assumption is the Welsh Government do continue to advocate repeal of section 25 of the Railways Act 1993, which prohibits awarding rail service contracts to public service operators. I assume that's correct.

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Mark DrakefordLabour

7 July 2023, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

North Wales

Well, Chair, let me agree with what I think is the fundamental point that Jack Sargeant is making, which is that the problems of the railways in Wales are problems of underinvestment—problems of long-term underinvestment; investment that we see going on in other parts of the United Kingdom and where…

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