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

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

I was not going to intervene, but I cannot let the point that the Minister has just made about the private sector having no interest pass. He will know perfectly well that during the pandemic the Gove