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Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 July 2025

Debate

Train Operators’ Revenue Protection Practices Review

Contribution

The long-term answer is that the railway deserves to be run by competent, professional people. The involvement of Ministers in decisions about timetables and fares is extremely unusual in world railways outside North Korea. I am doing what I am doing now because I think that changes need to be made, and we need to make them faster than we can bring in the legislation on Great British Railways. In the long term, the railways should be run by competent people to an overall government policy. That is the Government’s aim, and mine too.

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