division_name: Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill &#8212; Before Clause 1 - Purpose: improvement of passenger railway services
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e180.6/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an accessibility road map that will explain the actions we intend to take to improve things for disabled people or others requiring assistance in advance of GBR being set up.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="">6 November 2024</phrase>; Vol. 840, c. 1550.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e182.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;glaring omission from the Bill is, of course, the passenger.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="">6 November 2024</phrase>; Vol. 840, c. 1510.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e182.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;must, in taking any actions under the provisions of this Act, have regard to this purpose&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e182.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;improvement of passenger railway services&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e185.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government do not believe that we should either pay compensation for termination or keep paying fees to owning groups of train operating companies when we do not need to.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e185.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if we have the opportunity to put passengers out of their misery by ending a failing operator&#8217;s contract early and bringing their services into public ownership, we will do just that.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="">6 November 2024</phrase>; Vol. 840, c. 1519.]</p>