Speeches by Glover.

“Thinking about Governments that have gone by, in terms of the past work of the commission, and thinking about strategic themes more widely, if you were to choose a couple of areas that you think we, as a Select Committee, should give the new Government a hard time on—to really probe on—given the wisdom of your experien…”

“In your second national assessment of infrastructure report, published in 2023, you made a number of recommendations in the sphere of transport. How well do you think the new Government are doing so far in implementing them? I appreciate that you covered some of that in your introduction. Sir John Armitt: Does anybody …”

“T7. In my Oxfordshire constituency, residents are concerned about increased antisocial behaviour, particularly pickpocketing and shoplifting in our towns. Given that the last Conservative Government cut the number of police community support officers in the Thames valley area by more than half since 2015, what steps wi…”

“I join others in welcoming the Secretary of State to her place. Bikeability is the world’s largest road safety programme. Recent data from the Bikeability Trust showed that in areas with higher levels of training for children, the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads decreased. Does the Minister ag…”

“3. What steps she is taking to help improve road safety for vulnerable road users.”

“T7. Given that President-elect Trump has been at best ambivalent towards maintaining current levels of US military aid to Ukraine, we must redouble European efforts to support Ukraine. What further discussions does the Minister plan with European allies to collectively strengthen the provision of arms and resources to …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. I commend the right hon. Member for Maldon (Sir John Whittingdale) for securing this important debate. It was good to hear his support for public service broadcasting and his recognition that the licence fee is there not just for live television, but for ma…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Max Wilkinson) for securing this important debate. I agree with colleagues that it is important that we look predominantly to the future, but I want to reflect a little on how we have got here and on how Ol…”

“Renewable energy schemes on community buildings in my Oxfordshire constituency of Didcot and Wantage, supported by the Low Carbon Hub in Oxford, have mostly benefited building owners up to now. Would the Minister support more flexibility in local energy systems and allow local energy trading to get more support for ren…”

“3. What steps he is taking to support community energy projects.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing the debate. Her speech covered a lot of ground, and she paid warm tribute to campaigners in her constituency and beyond. She told the story, with great eloquence, of the journey that is st…”

“Thank you, Mr Pritchard. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship. I join my colleagues in praising the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) for securing this important debate. I am going to focus my remarks on the challenges of estate adoption, generally unaccountable management companies and fees.…”

“As a user of that route and having seen the stats, I somewhat dispute the reliability thing about bi-mode Hitachi trains, but that is detail for some other time. Just on East West Rail, the concern some might have is that the cost of equipping over-electrification to what is in effect a greenfield site and building a n…”

“Last Friday, there was an industry-wide incident relating to the GSM-R radio system. Are you confident that the rail network is well prepared for system-wide outages or issues of that nature in future?”

“Do you think that there are any wider learnings about the resilience of the system—not necessarily GSM-R but the system as a whole—to things like cyber-attacks? How confident are you that the industry has good plans to deal with those sorts of challenges?”

“A lot of people in the rail industry feel, and say, that one of the reasons why the rail industry has not been making progress is micromanagement on all the wrong things from the Department for Transport, and a lack of leadership on the right things. Is that a characterisation you recognise and, if so, how will GBR avo…”

“Another issue of split-ticketing is that, as I understand it, it somewhat messes up the data on how people are travelling. That is another disadvantage of it.”

“Earlier this year Royal Mail announced that it would withdraw its class 325 electric fleet for hauling its remaining freight by rail. Do you have any thoughts or concerns about that development?”

“You might even call it Red Star, as British Rail once did. Do you think we should be seeing more potential for rail freight on our rail network? As I understand it, our rail freight modal share is quite low compared with a lot of European countries.”

“It is really good to hear what Alex said about the experience of the rolling programme of electrification in Scotland, because sometimes we can focus too much on what has gone wrong, in terms of Great Western, rather than the lessons having been learned from that and the potential for more. I want to probe a little bit…”