Speeches by Glover.

“Do you think that there might be additional resources or support that would be necessary to improve that capacity?”

“I stand to speak in favour of various Lib Dem amendments and in particular new clause 7. Farmers in this country continue to be hammered, as they were under the previous Government, by the current one. From poor funding of rural public services to botched trade deals that undercut British farmers, rural communities hav…”

“I am going to have to launch a cyber-security inquiry, because the hon. Gentleman has clearly hacked my notes. [Laughter.] I entirely agree with him and pay tribute to him, because he is a consistent and passionate advocate for proportional representation, as am I. That is something on which we can agree. Actually, som…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Edward. I thank the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for his eloquent introduction of this important topic. Over a million people have signed the petition, and 4,929 of them are constituents of mine in Didcot and Wantage in Oxfordshire.…”

“I thank the Minister for her statement and for the strategy. We welcome it, having called for an updated road safety strategy for some time, following years of neglect of our roads by the previous Conservative Government. The strategy shows serious intent, and I commend the thought and research that has gone into it an…”

“Across the country, people enjoy traffic-free walking, cycling and wheeling on disused railways such as the Tissington trail in Derbyshire, the Mawddach trail in Gwynedd or the Deeside way in Aberdeenshire. What steps will the Secretary of State take to make it easier for local government and communities to gain access…”

“The Liberal Democrats welcome the Government’s decision to embrace our 10-year-long campaign for a rail fares freeze. However, I am sure the Secretary of State would agree that passengers have had to bear above-inflation fare increases for two decades prior to that, yet experience trains that are late and overcrowded, …”

“Clause 18 of the Bill sets out the various general duties of Ministers, Great British Railways and the ORR, but who will be responsible for enforcing the various duties given, particularly the changes to the ORR’s powers and role? Who will determine whether those duties have been met or are being met on an ongoing basi…”

“Is your point about the ORR being the avenue not somewhat undermined by the fact that the Bill requires the ORR to apply similar criteria to those applied by the High Court in a judicial review? Is that not an exceptionally high bar that, in effect, renders appeals unviable?”

“One of the duties is to “promote high standards of railway service performance”. Do you feel that is specific and targeted enough to achieve the better standards we hope to see?”

“I want to probe a little further on this business about not defining a timescale for the long-term strategy. I think we can agree that a real problem for the railway has been a lack of consistent longer-term policy. Of course, to a certain extent, one Government cannot bind the hands of another, but you would have thou…”

“To come back to the accessibility topic and what you were saying earlier, Minister, about rolling stock with incompatible doors and all the ramps and so on, we can all agree that is utterly farcical and needs to change, and it is good that there is a commitment to doing that, but one of the reasons why we, on this Comm…”

“Some evidence the Committee has received from stakeholders welcomes the ability of GBR to offer discounted access charges—although perhaps some might be a bit more concerned that it also has the ability to give higher ones in certain circumstances. Could that positive ability to offer discounted access charges be offse…”

“How do you see that ability to set those differential charges being policed?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Harris. I commend my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour the Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) for introducing the debate so eloquently. As she said, there is no question but that climate change and population growth are placing increasing strain on…”

“T9. Space Solar, based on Harwell campus in my Oxfordshire constituency, plans to deliver commercial space-based solar energy by 2032. Given what we have heard today about the Government’s commitment to artificial intelligence growth zones and the very high cost of industrial electricity, does the Secretary of State re…”

“Very nice of them to say that.”

“They are thinking whole-system/whole-life costs.”

“Yes. Feel free to add anything that has not been covered. We heard from panel two about how south Wales’s infrastructure and the valley lines have been taken over by the Welsh Assembly Government. Do you feel that under the Bill, there is a good opportunity for local authorities to have more control not just over servi…”

“The hon. Member makes a good point about the growing diversity in cricket. My constituency is home to Challow and Childrey cricket club, as well as to Didcot cricket club, at which there is a junior division, one of Oxfordshire’s largest disability cricket associations, and a women and girls division. Didcot cricket cl…”