Lord Liddle

I will make a brief intervention. This is the first time I have spoken on the Railways Bill and I am generally extremely supportive of it. I have listened with great sympathy to all the amendments put

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, which has thrown up an enormous range of new ideas and thoughts that various committees of the House might take up. I was going t

My Lords, it is a great privilege and pleasure to introduce this report on behalf of the Economic Affairs Select Committee of the House in place of our former chair, my noble friend Lord Wood of Anfie

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Hunt on his excellent introduction to this debate. I first met our new Prime Minister when he was a special adviser in the first term of the Blair Governm

My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, I find that the quality of this debate has left me with very little fresh or new to say. I want to emphasise some of the very important poi

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Evans of Rainow, on securing this debate and on the largely non-partisan way in which he explained the problem. I would love to see cross-party consensus