Speeches by Aquarone.

“I understand that is highly regulated. It is part of a cycle that is approved by the Departments and scrutinised by Bill’s committee. I am interested in what you get if you are paying for enhanced resilience at that site. There is an argument that says—I am sure this will be brought out in the fullness of time—that tha…”

“That would be very helpful, thank you. Can I just add a supplementary to my own question? Alice and Eliane, you have a service level arrangement and you have resilience, which unfortunately failed in this instance because of the unique nature of this fire and the consequences on that one site. What proportion of the am…”

“Have you done anything else in particular and specifically invested in any other areas to mitigate that risk of, essentially, a total airport shutdown since that 2014 report? Let us accept for a moment that that was a known risk.”

“The £1 billion on-site ring main thing is a very large investment, but it is not logarithmically out of step with what you are spending, for example, in a typical year on this sort of thing?”

“We all appreciate the elucidation you have given, particularly Thomas, as to the approach to risk management. We accept that risk management is about balancing convenience, cost, risk and safety. I just wanted to put on record that the fact that we are having this type of discussion has clearly relied upon the operatio…”

“In terms of the practical management of site security, I appreciate you cannot go into details. I am not privy to the details of the provision at Bacton gas terminal, for instance, but I am aware that that is a site of national security. It has multiple stakeholders, including military police on patrol at all times. It…”

“Just to build on that point about west London expansion and the potential need for significantly more power, I am interested in who is going to be responsible, and who is responsible now, for the security at those substations. There is a question about exactly which part of the apparatus is critical infrastructure and …”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) for her advocacy on this issue, as well as the Minister for her announcement. I, too, have received many emails from desperately worried constituents as we approached and then crossed the cliff edge in adoption support funding. They will struggle to squar…”

“My hon. Friend talks about the need for investment, and much of that will be in training new dentists. Does she therefore agree that it is baffling that a brand-new dental school at the University of East Anglia could be delayed by a full year because the Treasury refuses to release funding until a month after the dead…”

“Is there one measure in particular that you are particularly proud of from yesterday’s results?”

“Can you tell us what the number was for very good satisfaction overall?”

“Specifically to Judith, you have just completed a public consultation. I am interested in what it has told you so far, in particular about passenger expectations and local travel patterns. Has it revealed anything to you on those fronts?”

“Just talking about rural delivery, my rather simple and slightly bumpkin-ish view is that people want to get buses to places they want to go at times they want to travel at.”

“That is possibly quite reductive and certainly radical. Do we need to get over, in rural areas in particular, the idea of bringing buses to people’s doors? Should we be looking at travel users making their own way to a place that might not be in the centre of every single village in order to catch a bus that fits the b…”

“Do we need to be able to drive to these hubs, in that case?”

“Yes, I agree.”

“Just building on integration, I know I am going to get lynched by the eco mob for saying this, but one mode of transport that is still quite popular in rural areas is the motor car. You may have heard my previous question to the previous panel about whether we need to rethink the model of rural public transport a bit. …”

“I mean very much the latter.”

“I want to think about the question of enhanced partnerships and how much of that they could do. I will build on your example, if I may. One argument would be that franchising, for instance, would allow the revenue from that popular route to subsidise a much more dedicated either DRT or small local electric minibus serv…”

“I want to ask Miriam specifically about the transformational improvements that you have seen in Cornwall. In the last discussion, we were taking about EPs being the lightest-touch way of bringing parties to the table. Certainly, some of the testimonies from Damien and Alistair made me realise that I was not aware of th…”