Lord Harper (Con)

I am always happy to support a colleague. More seriously, the story that the noble Baroness recounted makes a very good point. It may not be 100% true but it is almost invariably true that violence ag

There is something the Minister said that I was a little concerned about because I have seen the impact of this locally. She is absolutely right that we need to make sure, when heritage railways are o

Before the Minister moves on, can I take her back to her point on the BTP budget, since she has mentioned it again? She may not have all the details to hand and this is a bit dull for everybody listen

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in this debate, and I look forward to the response of the noble Baroness, Lady Dacres. I will make a couple of points. The first concerns the central and impo

My Lords, I will make just a brief intervention since a long one is not necessary because the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, comprehensively introduced this set of amendments. I shall make two po

It is worth saying that it is not that those other countries have cheaper rail services; they just hide the cost and dump it all on taxpayers, most of whom do not use the rail services. We are just mo