Alec Shelbrooke - Contributions

Alec Shelbrooke

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Commons, Elmet and Rothwell (2010 - present)

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NATO

Commons Chamber on 20 June 201820/06/2018

I will not give way. I believe we need at a future date to spend time in the House discussing the relationship between PESCO and NATO in order to advise the NATO Parliamentary Assembly how to take this forward.

NATO

Commons Chamber on 20 June 201820/06/2018

This has been a very wide-ranging and cross-party debate, with Members agreeing on many areas. In the brief time I have, I want to raise one issue that worries me immensely about the future of NATO and how it operates. We will need more time on the Floor...

NATO

Commons Chamber on 20 June 201820/06/2018

Going back to the naval issue and equipping NATO, does my right hon. Friend agree that that is about not just increasing the level of spending to 2%, but where it is invested? The Royal Navy is going through a period of complete renewal and will have som...

Rail Timetabling

Commons Chamber on 4 June 201804/06/2018

My constituents at Garforth, Micklefield and Woodlesford stations are agog at how bad the trains have got, and I lay the blame for a lot of this at the door of Network Rail, not the Secretary of State. There have been plenty of opportunities and plenty o...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

The hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) commented on the French nationalised railways. Does my hon. Friend agree that they are in terrible straits, and that the President has recognised that the present system cannot continue because it is hae...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

I am most grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. Will she now clarify from the Dispatch Box that in order to nationalise the railways, it is Labour’s specific policy not to be a member of the single market?

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

I am sure that my hon. Friend recognises that President Macron, a centre-left politician, has recognised that the French railway system is completely unsustainable, and that has led all the workers out on strike.

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

I am sorry, but I have taken two interventions and I will not have any more. It was a disgrace to use that failure as an opportunity to act according to political ideology. I am very clear on that point. One of the fundamental problems with the railwa...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Railtrack failed due to the vandalism of John Prescott when he was Transport Secretary. He took advantage of the opportunity when British Rail’s failure to keep its system upgraded and safe culminated just three years into privatisation under Railtrack....

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has made that point. Indeed, that is the problem with a nationalised company. Many people have said, “Oh, it’s the Secretary of State’s responsibility in a nationalised company, ” but that is not how it works—it is...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Just give me two seconds. When we look at the money that was earned, some £1 billion was returned in three years compared with £1 billion in five years under nationalisation.

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

The problem this afternoon is that we are just going to fall into the ideological arguments about nationalisation and privatisation, rather than getting down to some of the key causes of why we are in this position today. Quite frankly, the nationalisati...

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Was steam still around?

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Is there not a much bigger problem with the Labour party’s policy of nationalisation? Labour Members are trying to keep us in the single market, but the state aid rules within the single market mean that we cannot nationalise.

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise

Commons Chamber on 23 May 201823/05/2018

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions

Commons Chamber on 21 May 201821/05/2018

If Members are worried about the number of people appearing on the register, is that not a flaw in the argument that we should change to 10-year cycles rather than five-year cycles?

Private Members’ Bills: Money Resolutions

Commons Chamber on 21 May 201821/05/2018

Yes, the hon. Gentleman did both. I sat through debates on both pieces of legislation. The issue has been well debated and we have to bring the vote forward. If the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 falls, my concern is that we w...

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