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Posts Tagged: Department for Transport

New event: ‘Back to Business – reopening international travel’, with Grant Shapps

The Transport Secretary joins a distinguished panel to explore this crucial question on Tuesday 20th April.

By Mark Wallace | 15 April 2021

Andy Street: The BBC’s Birmingham plans represent a cultural levelling up that this country needs

There are very, very few shows where you can see life here on your screens, or hear our accents.

By Andy Street | 23 March 2021

George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.

I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.

By George Freeman MP | 1 February 2021 | 18 comments

Shapps has spotted a once-in-a-lifetime chance to give Britain world-class railways

The Transport Secretary has set up a reform committee which is getting ready to use the pandemic to rout the Luddites in the rail unions.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 November 2020 | 139 comments

George Bathurst: Nationalisation should be a stepping stone to a better private railway network

John Major’s efforts in the Nineties, part-reversed by Blair, seem almost designed to give the market a bad name. There is an alternative.

By George Bathurst | 16 April 2020 | 35 comments

Iain Dale: I’m assertive. You’re a bully. Discuss.

Let’s say that Patel did, on occasion, shout – or lose her temper. Should that really be deemed unacceptable?

By Iain Dale | 6 March 2020 | 225 comments

The real question isn’t which airport we build, but how to get better at building anything

If there’s one thing which ought to unite even the most passionate partisans of the different proposals, it’s the abject state of British decision-making on infrastructure.

By Henry Hill | 28 February 2020 | 63 comments

Allrik Birch: We need private firms to re-build our rail network

The era of government-run railway infrastructure has been, for the most part, one of decline and a clear lack of ambition.

By Allrik Birch | 10 October 2019 | 29 comments

WATCH: Transport Secretary – “We will make a go, no go decision by the end of the year”

Shapps sets a tight deadline for his independent review into High Speed Two.

25 August 2019 | 22 comments

WATCH: ‘Anything is possible’ – Shapps on whether High Speed Two could be abandoned

The Transport Secretary this week ordered an independent commission to assess the railway’s costs and benefits.

25 August 2019 | 11 comments

Johnson won’t scrap HS2, but his review could make a big offer to the North

Building the northern sections first could provide a springboard for further projects and combat the idea that the former Mayor of London is too capital-focused.

By Henry Hill | 24 August 2019 | 116 comments

Sponsored Post: Darren Caplan: Plea to the Government – please reveal your proposals to enhance the UK’s railways

A lack of information about upcoming work, reduces rail businesses’ investment, jobs, and skills development, and threatens the ability of smaller rail firms to survive.

By Darren Caplan | 25 March 2019 | 8 comments

WATCH: Corbyn presses May on Brexit preparations at PMQs

The Labour leader leads with the collapse of the Government’s contract with Seaborne Freight.

13 February 2019 | 66 comments

Nus Ghani: Our new measures will make taxis and minicabs safer for passengers

Whilst most drivers are pillars of the community, recent events have shown how regulation and protections can be tightened.

By Nus Ghani MP | 13 February 2019 | 12 comments

Another review won’t spare ministers the need to grasp the nettle of railway reform

Public anger over disruption, fare increases, and cancelled investment needs to be answered – or they will be tempted by Labour’s calls for nationalisation.

By Henry Hill | 20 September 2018 | 16 comments

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