Speeches by Mayer.

“Esme, going back to my earlier point, if we have all these individual local authorities individually deciding what they are going to put in, does that not harm the user experience? As Nicole has just said, you end up driving literally over the border, out of Bedfordshire into Cambridgeshire, and it is an entirely diffe…”

“Should our Government have similar targets nationwide?”

“Looking across the channel, our European neighbours and partners have introduced regulations to try to improve availability, reliability and interoperability. Do you think there are lessons to be learned, and should the UK Government be following suit?”

“Is there not also a legal guarantee of coverage every 60 km within the EU regulations, as opposed to what we have in our regulations?”

“They might not want to, but it might be a good idea. Does anyone else have anything to add to that?”

“Right, okay. Understood. Building on the role of highways authorities and local authorities, they have a co-ordinating and enabling role. Are they best placed to be doing this, or might it be argued that they are a bit small and that we keep reinventing the wheel in lots of different parts of the country? Perhaps Esme,…”

“Who did they seek advice from that came back inconclusive?”

“Recent changes to legislation mean that the installation of charging infrastructure can now be done with street works permits rather than a section 50 licence, like utility companies use. Hopefully you have all read our previous report about digging up roads and making them okay again afterwards. Do you think that this…”

“They have—which coaches are excluded from.”

“Is there also an opportunity as well as a risk? I remember that at the Labour party conference—Ruth, you might have been to it too—there was a campaign of tourist attractions installing EV points; it was called Bon VoyCharge, which was a good name. It was very much selling them as something not only that would help the…”

“When you have multi-operator tickets or capped fares, or people are going from different types of transport to others—or, indeed, when someone is driving one set of passengers into another form of transport—are there good methods in place to allow the revenue to be fairly allocated?”

“Do you think you need direction to do so from some form of government?”

“Martijn, are we going to stop all the trains so that they link with your buses?”

“I want to follow up on what Steff was saying about apps not including cars. Samuel, I get what you were saying about park and ride, but to some extent that is public transport. What I am concerned about is the fact that people, in effect, do park and ride but they are doing it themselves as part of the journey. What is…”

“I do not mean just to a park and ride site. What if you decide that, for the first bit of your journey, it would be sensible to drive to a station or a bus stop that is not a specific park and ride? People are not just going to go to the park and ride; they are going to make a decision: “Actually, it makes more sense f…”

“Moving on to how private companies work together to deliver integration, what more incentives do you think are needed, and what disincentives do you think need to be removed? Are there examples where the bus waits because the train is late, or the train waits because the bus is late, or do you not do that because you g…”

“Until local roads are adopted, communities miss out on so much—from having their roads gritted to getting a post box, as I have found out. How can we speed up Central Bedfordshire council and others?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. Woodland creation is, at its heart, hopeful work. It is about climate action, nature recovery and public good. It is about taking long-term decisions for future generations. I also like that we know it is doable, because we have examples right across the countr…”

“I recently did a survey with local schools. Perhaps the children were more willing to put on the survey how much screen time they had when they were not supervised by their parents, but I was enthused about the things that they said they would do if they were not on social media, including spending far more time outdoo…”

“Is there possibly a role for passenger transport executives right across the country?”