Speeches by Turner.

“I enjoyed many hours in proximity to the hon. Member. He will know that the only reason we are considering the measure in such a short time is that the Bill has been delayed, so close to the April implementation period, because of the Conservative party. The final proof of the implications of the constitutional limits …”

“I am grateful to have been called to speak in this debate. I draw the House’s attention to my membership of the GMB and my chairship of its parliamentary group—an unremunerated role. The Bill has been the subject of 14 months of debate and scrutiny, and it should have received Royal Assent months ago. Let us not beat a…”

“The debate is on the Employment Rights Bill, although I struggle to follow the line of logic in the hon. Member’s speech. He said that the effect of the change would be to benefit the wealthiest employees, but chief executive officers and other senior executives rarely seek recourse to employment tribunals, for a numbe…”

“Will the shadow Minister give way?”

“Say a complaint has gone through the process and the watchdog and GBR end up with diametrically opposed points of view, how does that get resolved? What mechanism will there be to break the logjam?”

“Exactly. How do you see that working? Do you think that the same tests applied under the current system will be carried through, or are you working on a new, alternative way of balancing those competing demands?”

“Because Trainline’s algorithm states that it prioritises fastest routes, and then the cheapest fares within that range of fastest routes. It will not show all the possible routes and all the possible fares.”

“One issue that is probably going to come up frequently is written into the legislation: the contrary duty to have regard to public funds. I know that is an issue that comes up a lot with requests for new bridges and level crossings.”

“Under the new system, who should be responsible for deciding whether accessibility is good enough? If, for example, a passenger has a very poor experience of Passenger Assist or there are pronounced level-boarding issues at a particular location, what should that passenger’s experience of raising an issue, and it getti…”

“Clause 36 says that the passengers’ council “must have particular regard to the interests and needs of disabled persons”. We have heard suggestions that this could be alternatively worded as “a duty to promote” or could be akin to the public sector equality duty to narrow disadvantage faced by disabled passengers. Do y…”

“It would be helpful if you can come back to the Committee with that comparison, because it is a publicly funded industry.”

“Yes. In terms of the current share and how that might be affected by GBR, last year Trainline paid its chief executive £5.7 million. Unless you are in a position to say otherwise, I think that makes that person the best remunerated person in the entire transport industry. How is that justified?”

“I understand that, but it is not literally true to say, “Choose our app for all the routes and fares in one place”, is it?”

“So it is reliant on one of those bodies to make that enforcement. I have one more question, Chair.”

“You say that there are not effectively hidden means of keeping customers returning to the app, but the ORR did require Trainline to change how booking fees were applied at the start of the booking process quite recently. The Advertising Standards Authority said both that it was inaccurate for Trainline to say that you …”

“I understand the point about wanting to avoid distortion from a single dominant operator in this space, but that applies on the private side as well as on the public. It is a question for Mr Davies. The Competition and Markets Authority puts 25% of market share as its indicator of monopoly status. Is Trainline below or…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate and on again reading into the record the names of the 37. I hope I might put two sentiments of my own on the record. First, I pay tribute to the work of Eddie Marnell who, over many years as a member of GMB’s north-west and Irish region and central executive council…”

“I draw attention to my membership of the GMB and my chairship of its parliamentary group. The BMA is currently in dispute with its workforce over an offer of 2% for this year, which is below the inflation rate on the retail prices index and the consumer prices index. Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is a stri…”

“And now we turn, at last, to a fundamental question which has perhaps gone unasked in this House for too long: what is the mass and acceleration of an average-sized peacock? The question does not spring from the pages of a script for “The Goon Show” or “Monty Python”. It is a real case that came before the rail industr…”

“When the hon. Member for Orpington (Gareth Bacon) was the shadow Transport Secretary, he was recorded saying that his party would likely not reverse nationalisation because the public would be unlikely to think it was a good idea. If this Bill passes, will it be the policy of the hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham …”