Lord Snape
The Lord Snape
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 8 June 2004
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Rail Freight
13/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that response, but, while welcoming the 5% increase in rail freight over the past year, we are still a lon...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to meet the target of increasing rail freight by 75 per cent by 2050.
Tourism Levy
13/07/2025 • Lords
Will my noble friend bear in mind that cities as diverse as New York, Paris and Berlin have tourist taxes and that there is no noticeable lack of tour...
Public Transport: Expansion and Electrification
18/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, is my noble friend aware that it is more than 40 years since Sir Peter Parker, the then chairman of British Rail, recommended a rolling prog...
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
01/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will respond to the contribution from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, who made a similar speech—in fact, almost exactly the same speech—...
Before the noble Lord sits down, can he tell us how he managed to escape from the museum? I am amazed he was not kept in there.
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Birmingham City Council
31/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, will my noble friend acknowledge that the seeds of this dispute were sown during the period when the Conservative and Liberal party coalitio...
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
26/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, said that he deplored the fact that the £2 bus fare had View full contribution →
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
13/02/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I do not think I will offend too many people if I say that no one could object to this amendment. Fares play an important role, but I do not...
I respectfully point out that Manchester is scarcely a rural area, and the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, specifies rural areas. It ...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
28/01/2025 • Lords
If I may intervene on my noble friend on that point, the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, painted a picture of small local authorities taking on routes t...
Railway Electrification
22/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, does the Minister recollect that more than 40 years ago, Sir Peter Parker, the then chairman of British Rail, recommended a rolling programm...
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]
08/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I join the tributes paid earlier to Baroness Randerson, the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on transport. As someone who has taken an interest...
I am grateful to the noble Earl for giving way. Can he tell us all the great advantages to the bus industry brought about under the last Conservative ...
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