Catherine West: ...a difficult winter we have ahead of us, when we are all talking about visiting food banks on our constituency days. Last Friday I visited Naomi from Highgate, who has a distribution point in her garage. There are soup kitchens run by Mary in Bounds Green and by Ann in Middle Lane in Hornsey. This is the reality of constituency life now and it is hard to compare the two situations: the...
Sadiq Khan: ...drivers and critical workers on the network, based around the evolving guidance at the time and better understanding of the pandemic risks. Infection data was not formally collected by TfL at bus garage level until October last year because there was no widespread access to testing which would have facilitated this. Individual bus companies were, however, monitoring the number of suspected...
Keith Prince: Further to your responses to Questions 2021/1968 and 2021/2360, can you update your response to FOI-2119-2021 and provide me with “Covid-19 bus drivers garage by garage” from January 2021 to August 2021?
Robert Buckland: My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. The idea that buying an animal by the side of the road or in a garage forecourt for cash is somehow legitimate trade is clearly wrong. I am grateful to colleagues at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for doing important work on promoting safer purchasing through the “Petfished” campaign. We will build on that in the way in...
Kevin Brennan: The Secretary of State spoke earlier about pets being sold from garage forecourts. Just this week, on 10 September, the Welsh Labour Government in Cardiff introduced a new regulation that makes it an offence to sell a puppy or kitten that the seller has not bred themselves. Crucially, it also requires the seller to have bred the puppy or kitten on the premises, which puts a stop to...
Rachel Maclean: The MOT already includes a non-metered check of exhaust noise. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) oversees authorised garages to ensure MOT standards are correctly applied. The DVSA has no plans to implement a dB limit and a metered check of it, primarily due to the practical challenges of such a check, but this is kept under review as technology changes.
Sadiq Khan: ...20 strong double-decker hydrogen bus fleet. I announced £10m of funding through my Green New Deal Fund to support projects including Future Neighbourhoods, Solar Together, Community Energy, bus garage electrification, Better Futures and Advance London. I also secured, with London boroughs, over £160m of government funding to support my ‘Retrofit Revolution’ delivering activities...
Siân Berry: Vehicle range and the availability of garage infrastructure both help determine where it is feasible for Transport for London (TfL) to move bus operations to electric and hydrogen buses. Will you incorporate considerations of changes that assist zero tailpipe emission buses, such as changing the start or end of routes and their length, as part of the bus service reviews required by the...
Peter Aldous: ...Southport (Damien Moore) on securing the debate. I enjoyed his speech, but there was one notable omission. He did not mention Southport’s most famous son, Red Rum, who lived in a stable behind a garage. He cured his ills on the beach and won three grand nationals from there. Hopefully, that will be remembered in Southport’s towns deal. Lowestoft has its own towns deal, which will play...
Alistair Carmichael: ...Gillan—she was another one for whom I held not just respect, but affection—but it was apparent that the Conservatives’ campaigning machine in that constituency had perhaps been left in the garage for a few years longer than was necessarily helpful. If what we are about is engaging the electorate on an ongoing basis, I am all for that. Indeed, I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that the...
Roy Beggs: ...economy. They can take people to work. They were important during and at the peak of the pandemic, when there was reduced public transport, because they took essential workers to hospitals, shops, garages etc. Taxis play a vital role for those who may not have their own transport. In normal times, they play an important role for parents, often assisting in delivering children to school....
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville: ...of a baby at some stage. My mother bought me two dozen terry nappies when I was expecting my first baby. They lasted until my second child no longer needed them and they still had a life in the garage as cleaning cloths. There were disposable nappies around, but they were costly and so were used only when we went on holiday. My granddaughter was kitted out with reusable nappies—a very...
Baroness Berridge: ...TechSafe scheme provides EV technicians with an easy and voluntary way to certify their competence. EV users will be able to access the register to check the EV competencies of technicians at their garage, supporting consumer confidence in this growing market. More widely, the Green Jobs Taskforce was launched last November, working in partnership with business, skills providers and unions...
Sadiq Khan: ...ambitions by making best use of their own land, including small sites. Last year I published new legal guidance to help boroughs maximise non-residential assets for housing delivery, including garages and carparks held in the General Fund. While the LEAP funding for my Small Sites Small Builders came to an end earlier this year, the programme continues to support public landowners to bring...
Stuart McDonald: ...particularly badly hit. Mr N’s daughter had already been vulnerable to mental ill health after her husband had been detained and suffered ill treatment in Syria. They are currently residing in a garage on a farm in Lebanon, where they are working in exchange for accommodation. The family rely on the family here to transfer them money for food and basic essentials. A family reunion...
Kemi Badenoch: ...pandemic. This was to ensure that motorists could continue to use their vehicles to travel to work where essential, or to shop for essential food and medicine. The Government did not mandate garage closures, and car servicing was not prohibited. This meant that, while MOT certificates had been extended, motorists would still be able to keep their vehicles safe and roadworthy, including...
Elly Baker: How many Relief facilities are provided (a) by bus operating companies normally at bus garages; (b) by bus operating companies through local informal agreements with businesses; and (c) by TfL at key locations normally at bus stations, or large bus stands, where a significant number of routes terminate and land is available?
the Earl of Devon: ...the further-flung regions of the British Isles—or even overseas at times—were discriminated against by the status quo ante. I note my interest in all those categories, speaking as I am from a garage in California. As a champion of Devon, I am particularly keen that regional voices be heard. The south-east and those able easily to access Westminster are overrepresented in live debates...
