argyrotsipi/train-dataset huggingface dataset:
Leaving the EU: Ports — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): UK ports are adaptive and market-oriented. They are ready to facilitate growth in trade when we leave the EU. Over the medium and longer-term, patterns of maritime and inland traffic may be affected by the trade agreements we reach with the EU and with countries elsewhere. It is too early to predict in detail what those patterns will be, but ports nationwide are prepared for all likely eventualities.
Leaving the EU: Ports — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Stephen Daniel Double (Conservative, Centre-right): The stunningly picturesque river port of Fowey is a magnet for visitors by both land and sea, but it is also a busy commercial port that ships the world’s finest china clay around the world. How will the Department’s recently published port connectivity study assist small river ports like Fowey?
Leaving the EU: Ports — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): As we plan infrastructure improvements over the coming years, I want us to look at how we best connect, in the most effective way possible, the ports upon which our country depends, both large and small. Of course, my hon. Friend will be aware that we are already demonstrating our commitment to improving the road network in his area, with the planned completion of the new link road up to the A30.
Leaving the EU: Ports — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): As the hon. Lady will be aware, this is not really a transport matter. Our ports will be ready, and our plans for how we manage our borders will be ready for all eventualities, but I want, I believe and I expect that we will have a sensible agreement with the European Union that avoids the charging of tariffs. That is certainly what the EU wants, and it is what we want.
Leaving the EU: Ports — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer is yes but, of course, most of our ports are well used to dealing with traffic from both inside and outside the European Union. Those handling freight move it through extremely quickly and effectively, and they have great expertise in doing so. I am very optimistic that our ports will do a great job in the post-Brexit world.
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): Transport infrastructure has an important role to play in helping to increase our productivity. That is why we have set out to more than double our capital investment in transport over the decade to 2020, and why it is a central part of our industrial strategy.
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Gillian Keegan (Conservative, Centre-right): Many of my constituents in Chichester and the surrounding area lose hours and hours each week sitting in traffic on the A27. That has a knock-on negative impact on productivity, the local economy and the environment. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that road investment decisions for areas such as Chichester, which are already over capacity, are prioritised in the road infrastructure investments for 2020 to 2025?
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who has been doing a fantastic job of trying to get the A27 project back on track. I am absolutely aware of its importance to her constituency and to the south coast. It is important that the community in Chichester reaches a consensus about the right option, and of course I then want to see the project go ahead.
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): Actually it is this Government who are investing in rail and are providing new trains right across the north; who have just opened the last stretch of motorway-grade road between London and Newcastle; who are investing money in smart motorways; and who are putting money into Leeds, to ensure better connectivity there, and into towns and cities around the north. I wish Opposition Members would start to talk up the north and the improvements that are happening, rather than talking it down and pretending nothing is happening.
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Mark Andrew Menzies (Conservative, Centre-right): I have a wonderful piece of transport infrastructure in my constituency called Blackpool airport. Will the Secretary of State tell me what steps will be taken to ensure that with a third runway at Heathrow, we will see improved connectivity to my part of the north-west?
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): This is why I am committed to saying that the 15% of slots set aside for regional connections are set in stone. We are not going to see those suddenly disappear from 15% to 10% to 5%, with routes diverted elsewhere. The expansion of Heathrow is a really important part of delivering improvements right around the United Kingdom, and I am committed to making sure that happens.[Official Report, 12 July 2018, Vol. 644, c. 8MC.]
Transport Infrastructure — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): This is one of the great conundrums. We are spending money around the country and it is impossible to deliver investment without some disruption. I absolutely would not accept a train company using that as an opportunity to do things that are not right for passengers, but we have to accept that if we are going to modernise different parts of our road and rail infrastructure, some disruptive consequences are inevitable, however much we might wish that was not the case.
E10 Fuel — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Environment
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): The Department absolutely recognises, as the Government do, the importance of clean air, and established a working group with the fuel industry and others in November 2017 to look at issues relating to the potential introduction of E10 fuel. This group has also considered the new fuel labelling requirements introduced by the alternative fuels infrastructure directive. We intend to consult on proposals later this year and, in some cases, potentially very soon.
E10 Fuel — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Energy
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): I can only salute the right hon. Gentleman’s expertise in crowbarring a question about diesel into exchanges about E10. We are taking a strategic approach. We introduced changes to the renewable transport fuel obligation earlier this year. We have changed the status of the crop cap. We are pushing for the increased use of waste-based biofuels, and we are supporting the introduction of higher-performance fuels in other sectors of the transport world.
A12: Gallows Corner Roundabout — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): As my hon. Friend will know, the A12 in London is managed by Transport for London as part of its route network. The Department for Transport consultation on proposals for the creation of a major road network was launched in December and included an indicative network of the expected future major roads. That included the A12 and A127 at Gallows Corner. We aim to publish a consultation response this summer. The roads forming the final major roads network will be confirmed by the end of 2018.
A12: Gallows Corner Roundabout — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Andrew Richard Rosindell (Conservative, Centre-right): The Minister will be aware that the Gallows Corner flyover at the A127-A12 junction is a very congested accident hotspot. The hopelessly inadequate response from TfL and the Mayor of London should be dealt with by the national Government. Will money from the national highways budget be used so that the Government can step in to help us to resolve this ongoing problem?
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Government are in the middle of a £23 billion programme of investment to upgrade our strategic road network. We are also investing money in pinch points, with an additional £220 million going to tackle them last year. Throughout the country, that money is being used for smaller local projects such as junction improvements that can really make a difference to traffic flows.
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Gregory Knight (Conservative, Centre-right): Is my right hon. Friend aware that some councils cause avoidable congestion themselves by the use of unnecessary and poorly-phased traffic lights? Will he encourage local authorities to audit their traffic-light usage to see whether some can be switched off? Will he also encourage the greater use of traffic-sensitive traffic lights?
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with both those points. Traffic lights play an important part in the management of traffic flows, but if they are synchronised in the wrong way or used in the wrong way, they can make things worse, rather than better. I absolutely join my right hon. Friend in sending to councils the message that they should keep traffic-light usage under constant review.
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): It is simply not true that the Northern franchise was let on a no-growth basis, although it was under the Labour party when it was in power. One reason why we have had the timetable problems, apart from the delay to the electrification—the investment that we are putting into the railway line from Manchester to Blackpool—is that we were in May introducing hundreds of new services, additional services and longer trains throughout the Northern rail region. That is hardly a zero-growth franchise.
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Rebecca Faye Clark (Pow) (Conservative, Centre-right): One thing that would reduce road congestion is, of course, getting people out of their cars and on to their bikes. We very much welcome the upgrade of the A358 in Taunton, but does the Secretary of State agree that whatever route is chosen by Highways England, the provision of adequate cycling infrastructure should very much be part of upgrades?
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I always hope that when a new road is put in place, provision will be made for other users—cyclists and pedestrians—alongside that road, particularly in respect of a major road like the A358. That new road will of course mean that there is substantial additional capacity on the old road, which will become much less congested, but I am sure that Highways England will be looking carefully into how it can make provision for all road users.
Road Congestion — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): I am obviously aware of the pressures on the A38 and, indeed, of the pressures on roads north and west from Plymouth. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for South East Cornwall (Mrs Murray) who, last week, made a very strong argument to me when I visited Cornwall for improvements to the west of Plymouth. That is something that we are looking at very carefully.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Recent disruption on the rail service has been unacceptable and the Government have been clear that passengers will be appropriately compensated. Transport for the North has agreed that the special compensation should cover weekly, monthly and annual season ticket holders on the worst affected northern routes who experienced severe disruption before and after the May timetable change.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Transport for the North has set out high-level details of the scheme, which will enable passengers who have season tickets to be compensated for up to one month’s cash compensation where they have suffered severe disruption. That is in addition to the normal compensation schemes available to passengers through the delay repay mechanism.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Kevin Paul Hollinrake (Conservative, Centre-right): Passengers are experiencing significant delays travelling from west to east on TransPennine Express services, owing to cancellations and other delays. Will the Minister do everything that he can to persuade TransPennine Express to improve these services and to offer proper compensation? Season ticket holders in Yorkshire are getting one week’s compensation, whereas those in the north-west are getting one month’s compensation. That does not seem fair.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Transport for the North has determined that passengers on the most severely affected routes, principally on Northern services, will get four weeks’ cash compensation, as my hon. Friend rightly said, and those on the less severely affected routes, which happen to be in Yorkshire, will receive one week’s cash compensation. That is a matter for Transport for the North.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Rail operating companies will be held responsible for that portion of performance for which they are responsible and accountable, and that is now under way. The Secretary of State has set in train a hard review of GTR, and at the end of that hard review, all appropriate options will be on the table and available to the Secretary of State and to the whole Government.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Secretary of State has always been clear that we will review where responsibility lies, and the rail industry will be responsible for undertaking that appropriate compensation to make sure that passengers have the right redress. As Members will be aware, the rail industry is partly in public control through Network Rail and partly run by private operators. Each will pay its fair share.
Rail Disruption: Passenger Compensation — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have already said, the compensation involves four weeks’ cash compensation for passengers on the most severely disrupted routes on Northern services and one week’s compensation further afield in Yorkshire. Similarly, GTR announced yesterday a comparable package of special compensation for passengers on the most affected Thameslink and Great Northern routes.
Rail Services: Congleton — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): As part of the improvements to Northern Rail services, there are more frequent, hourly Sunday stopping services from Stoke to Manchester via Macclesfield. Congleton station will benefit from full waiting room refurbishment, new seating, customer information systems, new and improved signage and new ticket vending machines.
Rail Services: Congleton — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Fiona Claire Bruce (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Secretary of State for that reply—and all that in the north. It is encouraging that, after years of local campaigning by my constituents, a strategic outline business case has been developed for enhancing the mid-Cheshire rail line, including reopening Middlewich railway station in that growing town. What assurance can the Secretary of State give me that funding is available for this vital development work?
Rail Services: Congleton — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Christopher Stephen Grayling (Conservative, Centre-right): There are two routes in the north that I feel particularly keen to look at seriously reopening. One is the line from Skipton to Colne. The other is the line that passes through Middlewich in my hon. Friend’s constituency that, in my view, should be a commuter railway into Manchester. Transport for the North has been working on the options, and I am committed to ensuring that we take that work forward.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): With two decades of almost unbroken growth, we have seen rail passenger journeys more than double since the mid-1990s. For the first time since 2009-10, statistics from the Office of Rail and Road show a small decline in rail journeys over the past year, although passenger kilometres have continued to increase.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Government are conscious of the cost of fares to the travelling public. For that reason, we have ensured that fares have risen at a lower rate than they did under the last Labour Government. The causes of the decline in season ticket numbers are complex. Although the statistics show a fall in journeys made using season tickets, there has been an increase in journeys made using other ticket types over the past year. Factors such as strikes, station closures and weather have had an impact on season ticket use.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I can tell my right hon. Friend why that is. There has been a major signalling outage on the Brighton main line service, which has affected services throughout the network. Although this is the responsibility of Network Rail, the situation has affected services substantially on the Brighton main line. That is why we are investing £300 million in this route, with work starting in the coming months.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said, the decline in passenger journeys is a relatively recent phenomenon. Passenger kilometres continue to grow. It is difficult to determine exactly why we have this decline in season tickets, but we believe that it is due to factors such as strikes and recent station closures. In areas outside of London where there have not been those factors, we have not seen similar declines in passenger journeys.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Labour’s policies of nationalisation would be no panacea for the challenges we face. Indeed, those challenges spring to a very large extent from the publicly owned parts of the rail industry—namely, Network Rail, the part that is in state control. We see passenger interests as best served by bringing together in partnership the very best of the public and private sectors, as the Secretary of State set out in his strategic vision for rail last November.
Passenger Rail Usage — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): We are just completing the £1 billion investment in the great north rail project, which included significant electrification of the Liverpool to Manchester route. We are now about to embark on the next control period for rail, in which we will spend £2.9 billion on the trans-Pennine route upgrade. This is the single largest enhancement programme across the entire country, representing a third of all such spending.
Rail Network: Devon and Cornwall — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Questions: If he will make an assessment of the role of the rail network in Devon and Cornwall in supporting the economy of the south-west.
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The rail network plays a vital part in supporting our economy across the country, including in Devon and Cornwall. That is why we are investing more than £400 million in the rail network in the south-west. This includes a fleet of brand-new trains for services to Devon and Cornwall.
Rail Network: Devon and Cornwall — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Questions: If he will make an assessment of the role of the rail network in Devon and Cornwall in supporting the economy of the south-west.
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Minister for his answer. He will be aware from our recent discussions that there is real disquiet in Devon and Cornwall about the references to it in recent consultation about the future of the CrossCountry franchise. Can he reassure me that there is no intention of ending vital direct services from key locations such as Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol to the heart of south Devon’s English riviera?
Rail Network: Devon and Cornwall — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Questions: If he will make an assessment of the role of the rail network in Devon and Cornwall in supporting the economy of the south-west.
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As I said to my hon. Friend when we discussed this issue a few days ago, the south-west is a vital part of our rail network. I am looking forward to discussing these issues with him further, as well as with the Peninsula Rail Task Force, which I hope to meet next week when I am in Cornwall discussing rail issues. The CrossCountry franchise offers passengers the ability to travel to Birmingham and on to the north-east and Scotland, or they can change at stations en route to connect on to trains that take them to other parts of the country.
Rail Network: Devon and Cornwall — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Questions: If he will make an assessment of the role of the rail network in Devon and Cornwall in supporting the economy of the south-west.
Jo Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): No decisions have been taken on any options for the next franchise. This consultation is a way for us to gather the views of the travelling public and of Members of the House, so that we have the best-informed choice of possible options when we take those decisions.
A19: Collisions — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful, Mr Speaker. I think I can calm the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Andy McDonald) by giving my answer to the question asked. Highways England’s 2017 regional safety report assessed the safety performance of all the routes in the Yorkshire and north-east region, including the A19. The A19 is performing well compared with other routes of its type, but Highways England is not complacent, and a number of further studies and safety improvement schemes are planned.
A19: Collisions — House of Commons, 2018-07-05
Topic: Transportation
Alexander Jesse Norman (Conservative, Centre-right): As the hon. Gentleman will know, we take all issues of safety very seriously, and the same is true in the case of the A19. I have visited the A19 and seen schemes at work. We have further work planned on it, always with safety in mind.