Dehenna Davison: ...by individuals such as Tommy Lowther, Judith Buckle, Kimberley Clarke and others, including Paul Hedley, who responded instantly to calls to provide a generator—it had been sitting in his garage. I really want the Secretary of State to address that point about emergency generators. After five days of no power, no heating and no light, the smallest things, such as a single lightbulb, a...
Alyn Smith: ...never have been before. GDP is a rubbish measure of any human happiness. If we want to increase GDP, I will give two examples. A car crash is a fantastic way to increase GDP, because it involves garages, lawyers, insurance companies. It involves all sorts of things that are not economically productive, but do count from an GDP perspective as positive to the balance sheet. Divorce is also...
Roy Beggs: ...a long way to go. I was in a village north of Inverness during the summer. It was a small village of, I estimate, 500 people, and there were four charging points in the public car park. I visited a garage, and there were charging points there. I was shocked. Our infrastructure is so far behind. It is vital that not only the Infrastructure Department but other Departments move. I have been...
Baroness Vere of Norbiton: ...charging needs of residents, businesses and visitors. Electric vehicle drivers will require rapid chargepoints to enable long distance journeys, but for many drivers, home charging on driveways and garages is expected to be the most convenient option for shorter journeys. Further, the Government has announced it will require new homes and homes undergoing major renovation with associated...
...“dwelling” means—(a) a building or structure which is used as a dwelling, or(b) a part of a building or structure, if the part is used as a dwelling,and includes any yard, garden, grounds, garage or outhouse belonging to and used with a dwelling.”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment creates a new offence of “locking on”, involving the attachment of an individual to...
Jess Phillips: ...that area get a little bit trendier, and the price of my dad’s house, which he bought for £30,000, went up and up and up. He didn’t particularly do much work—he likes to woodwork in his garage, but he has not done much. His house is probably worth around £700,000 now, and it was £30,000 when he bought it. If my dad were here today, what he would say to hon. Members, and what he...
Lord Stewart of Dirleton: ...to fulfil that role. At the same time, if my car developed a minor technical fault, I would not necessarily want to pay out for a consultant engineer to fix it, as opposed to taking it to the local garage. Complaints about the quality of interpretation or the professional conduct of interpreters are carefully monitored and independently assessed by the Language Shop. The complaint rate...
Lord Bach: ...in 1972. He had an old scooter and, with his friends, he visited a hospital, where one of his mates handed him an old scooter helmet which was apparently useless, and which he put in his family’s garage. He was charged with handling and was fined £5. Since then, he has never offended again. In 1972, he began working for a local newspaper. He had a highly successful career in journalism,...
Julie Marson: ...authority level or at parliamentary and national level—find really affects people’s lives. This can seem esoteric, but when people’s bins are not collected or someone is building an illegal garage or parking lot next to them, it causes them so much distress and truly causes so much anxiety in their lives. That is when they turn to those in authority—they come to us for help, but...
Lord Watson of Invergowrie: ...and long-established role of university teacher education has been weakened to the point where I believe serious questions are raised about the very purpose of teaching. When I take my car to the garage for repairs, I do not want it done by someone who is not qualified; when I go to hospital, I do not want my medical care delivered by somebody who is not qualified; and when I go to a...
Lord Coaker: ...else, but during lockdown, going to the shops sometimes to get an essential supply became a day out. I am sure we are all aware of that. It was a fact that in every shop, store, service station or garage you went to, you actually met somebody else, and, frankly, particularly at the beginning of the pandemic, we had no real idea about the consequences of the level of human interaction that...
Paul Sweeney: ...run by the Army. They were recently asked to help with the ambulance crisis in a number of Scottish health boards and last month approximately 200 servicemen and women helped to deliver petrol to garages across the country in an attempt to ease the fuel crisis. Despite their personal sacrifice, they are often forgotten when they return from duty or leave the armed forces entirely. Those...
Sadiq Khan: ...this on 23 March 2020, instructing people to “stay at home to save lives”. As set out previously, the legal duty rests with the bus operating companies as the employers to ensure their bus garages are safe places to work. When the decision was taken for the whole country to go into lockdown in March 2020, all non-essential site activity across Transport for London (TfL) was promptly...
Trudy Harrison: ...pleasure to speak on this subject. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire (Bill Wiggin) on securing the debate. It has taken me back to when I was 16. Dad took me to the garage and unveiled my first motorbike, as I thought, though it was probably a moped—a 50 cc bright blue Honda Camino. I have since had many enjoyable days out riding pillion on bikes from a...
Neil O'Brien: ...boost local areas by transforming unloved and disused sites into vibrant communities for people to live and work in. With the demolition of unsightly derelict buildings and disused car parks and garages, that is levelling up in action and a clear example of our restoring local pride in place while building the homes this country needs. Crucially, this funding will help to protect the...
Sadiq Khan: No, I do not agree with that assessment as a range of mitigation measures were in place to control the virus. The bus operators who used ferry vehicles to transport drivers between garages and changeover points – often for only a short period - followed the prevailing guidance issued by Public Health England (PHE) at different points of the pandemic. They undertook a range of steps to make...
Keith Prince: Given your: (a) admission in your response to Question 2021/0121 that TfL “does not hold copies of these Covid-19 risk assessments for garage premises”; and (b) refusal in your response to Question 2021/0122 to provide “copies of all documentation (emails, directives, decisions and handwritten notes) pertaining to TfL’s discussions—with Bus Operators, Unite the Union and, if...
Sadiq Khan: .... TfL scaled-back on all physical visits at the height of lockdown in accordance with the prevailing Government advice. Reducing the number of people in the workplace (and potentially moving from garage to garage) that could pass on and spread the virus was a sensible step to take and complemented the approach being taken by the operators to limit the number of personnel on site. I’m...
Lord Bird: ...not have that—if we had made the adjustments many years ago—we would not have the problem of the law of unintended consequences, which means that we cannot even get gas or petrol from our local garage. I believe that, if we are to go anywhere, we have to reinvent the whole way in which children are taught creatively. I declare an interest, in that I put my children through the Steiner...
Gillian Martin: ...of drivers. The cost of timber has risen from £1.60 to more than £5 per metre, and the cost of steel has risen from £1,000 to £1,500 per tonne. Fabricators, kitchen and bathroom companies, garages, joiners, plumbers, builders, farmers and civil and mechanical engineering businesses have all been impacted as their overheads go through the roof. Ordering from suppliers outwith the UK has...
