Lord Lansley (Con)

My Lords, I will speak briefly in this group. There have been many good points made, but I want to focus on Amendment 123 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. The purpose of Amendment 123 is

My Lords, I have Amendment 106 in this group and apologise to noble Lords for not being able to be here at the last Committee session when a number of amendments to which I had put my name were debate

I take that point, but, of course, that is if the financial assistance under this is restricted to infrastructure, which we debated a short while ago. If there is a requirement to notify of the financ

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this interesting debate. To my mind, we established one or two rather important propositions. The first is that, when the Government are setting out

Forgive me, but I do not see it as a conflict at all. I am expressing, as I think the Minister has done on a previous occasion, that there is a difference between what is long term and what needs to h

Surely there is, between the long-term rail strategy and the business plan, the statement of objectives. Surely the question, which I think my noble friend through his amendments has explored quite po