Speeches by Mayer.

“I want to go back to the fact that inbound flights were not being allowed to land. We are being told that the safety-critical systems worked. Can you just explain what the safety-critical systems are? You are also saying that it was not safe, in effect, to get passengers to come in, because it was not possible to proce…”

“So you have landed it. What is the safety problem in terms of getting the passengers off?”

“Nigel seemed to suggest earlier that some of these things could have been done manually. Would you like to respond to that point?”

“It could be steps instead of bridges. Maybe you would move people around the airport, or in terms of Border Force, et cetera.”

“How effectively did Heathrow work with other airports in the UK, continental Europe and the rest of the world during the incident to accommodate diverted flights and to reroute passengers?”

“To the extent that you know the answer to this one, when do you think that other airports became aware that flights would be heading in their direction?”

“Some 700,000 people in Washington DC are currently disenfranchised because their representatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives do not have voting rights or full control of local government affairs. It is the equivalent of everyone in Bedfordshire voting for MPs who have no chance of going through the v…”

“12. What steps he is taking to increase the understanding of and respect for the right to self-determination globally.”

“Spring is in the air, and it is almost time for a familiar ritual. On Sunday, the clocks will go forward by an hour, and our evenings will become lighter overnight as British summer time begins. Frankly, each time the clocks go forward and back, it is a bit of a faff. I think we have all looked in confusion at the cloc…”

“How have enhanced partnerships led to stronger collaboration between operators and local authorities? Perhaps you could give us a couple of specific examples. Alistair, you just gave us a good one.”

“In a similar vein, Stephen, is the introduction of bus franchising in Greater Manchester helping attract new passengers? Are unique new passengers using the network as opposed to more passenger journeys being made? If so, who are they?”

“Is the growth in passenger numbers made up of new people?”

“Do you have any idea who these new passengers are? Are they commuters?”

“Judith, you said earlier that your MCA was already subsidising most rural services. Are they net or gross contracts?”

“Stephen, were yours previously net or gross?”

“Did that give the authority some of the skills you needed when you moved forward into franchising?”

“How successful have enhanced partnerships been in improving bus services outside of major urban centres? We are not necessarily just talking about very rural areas; we are also talking about your average market town.”

“Therefore, at the same time as producing a list of socially necessary services, should you also be producing a list of potentially necessary high-frequency services? Otherwise, we will be in a decline.”

“Is there a danger that having a list of socially necessary services will mean that the services that could be enhanced, which has happened through various pots such as BSIP, are no longer enhanced by transport authorities? We talked before about how there has been a decline in high-frequency services. Rather than using…”

“It might be worth getting on the public record the role of the traffic commissioner. We might have just misleadingly given the impression that you do not need to run your buses on time, whereas you will get in trouble if you do not.”