Simon Lightwood
Simon Lightwood MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Condition of Roads: Cheshire
13/07/2025 • Commons
I congratulate the hon. Member for Chester South and Eddisbury (Aphra Brandreth) on securing this debate on the condition of roads in Cheshire, and on...
Disabled Bus Passes
09/07/2025 • Commons
As I mentioned earlier, under the bus services Bill, local authorities will be tasked with producing a bus network accessibility plan—assessing bus ne...
I will not give way again to the hon. Lady. Every single local transport authority in the country has the ability to go above and beyond the ENCTS sta...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)
02/07/2025 • Commons
If I may, I want to put on record my thanks to you, Dame Siobhain, and the other Chairs of the Committee over the past couple of weeks. I also want to...
Poor performance by operators delivering franchised services is properly managed through the franchising contracts themselves. The Department’s franch...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)
02/07/2025 • Commons
In the spirit of the Government’s objective to reduce violence against women and girls, I think it would be sensible to make reference to that within ...
I thank the hon. Members for Wimbledon, for North Norfolk, for South Devon and for Didcot and Wantage for tabling amendment 61, which seeks to include...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)
30/06/2025 • Commons
The clause supports bus franchising authorities and local transport authorities to deal effectively with fare evasion. That is achieved through amendm...
From what I have heard from Committee members, we share the goal of improving bus services for passengers. These clauses are a direct response to a pr...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)
30/06/2025 • Commons
The hon. Lady will have seen in the Bill that there is an element of ensuring that bus drivers and other persons in bus companies are given training o...
After the Liberal Democrat contribution, I was missing my headphones—[Interruption.] I say that with love. I thank Committe...
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Waterloo-Reading Line: Class 701 Trains
30/06/2025 • Commons
I am sure that the Rail Minister will have heard that comment.
The new managing director of the publicly owned SWR has been tasked with producing a...
It is of course a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Butler. I congratulate the hon. Member for Wokingham (Clive Jones) on raising this issue.
Th...
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
25/06/2025 • Commons
The hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham spoke about the removal of minimum mobilisation periods. It is consistent with the aims of the Bill to empo...
The clause is about mobilisation periods for franchising areas. Existing law states that there must be a period of at least six months between the fra...
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Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
25/06/2025 • Commons
Subsections (5) and (6) of clause 14 were inserted by non-Government amendments in the Lords. This amendment seeks to remove those subsections. Clause...
I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 14, page 10, line 27, leave out subsections (5) and (6).
This amendment removes the requirement for the Se...
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Train Frequency: Sutton and Cheam
25/06/2025 • Commons
I am aware that another two of those trains are now in operation. The new managing director is aware that this is a challenge and we are already begin...
Services returning to public ownership is a watershed moment for our railways and the beginning of our efforts to build Great British Railways, a new ...
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