Light Rail APPG

First Registered: 12/10/2016 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021

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To encourage, promote and develop light rail, trams and ultra-light rail and environs, its benefits as a mode of transport and a central tool by modal switch etc in the climate change emergency.

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Recent Documents related to Light Rail

1. Light Rail
12/10/2016 - APPGs

Found: To encourage, promote and develop light rail, trams and ultra-light rail and environs, its benefits as

2. Guidance: Light rail and tram statistics information
19/06/2019 - Department for Transport
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Found: Light Rail and Tram Statistics: Introduction In this document Further information Public

3. Light rail and tram statistics, England: year ending March 2020
25/06/2020 - Department for Transport
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Found: information on light rail and tram systems in England year. The release covers light rail and tram

4. Light rail and tram statistics, England: year ending March 2020
25/06/2020 - Department for Transport
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Found: Statistics Light rail and tram statistics, England: year ending March 2020 Light rail and tram

5. Rail factsheet: 2020
08/12/2020 - Office of Rail and Road (ORR)
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Found: national rail network, so do not include underground, light rail and tram systems. Contact us Rail statistics

Latest Documents
Recent Speeches related to Light Rail

1. Tram Safety
10/12/2018 - Commons Chamber

1: worst tram accident in a century. It was the worst rail tragedy for 17 years. Along with those who died - Speech Link
2: national issue. There were 267 million tram and light rail journeys made last year. Clearly, the industry - Speech Link
3: confidence in tram networks. The number of tram and light rail passenger journeys across England fell by 0.2% - Speech Link

2. Radlett Airfield Site
01/09/2020 - Commons Chamber

1: Government decided that a hugely damaging strategic rail freight interchange should be built on the site - Speech Link

3. Greater Manchester Metrolink
20/03/2018 - Commons Chamber

1: network opened in 1992 and is now the UK’s biggest light rail network. It is essential to Greater Manchester’s - Speech Link
2: previously a heavy rail line, which was then decommissioned, to be turned into a light rail system. Clearly - Speech Link
3: Although rail is not my specific brief, it is worth saying that the great north rail project has allowed - Speech Link

4. HS2
11/03/2020 - Lords Chamber

1: to seek a judicial review of the decision in the light of the climate and wildlife impacts of the plan - Speech Link
2: various names, one of them being Northern Powerhouse Rail. That would be a fundamental mistake because it - Speech Link
3: should call the fourth green light to the project, or a continuing green light, like those trains going 125 - Speech Link

5. Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
30/10/2019 - Grand Committee

1: certainty for the rail industry and passengers. It fixes deficiencies in a number of pieces of rail-related legislation - Speech Link

Latest Speeches
Recent Questions related to Light Rail
1. Rail Delivery Group: Network Rail
asked by: Jim McMahon
02/11/2020
... what assessment he has made of Network Rail effectiveness in working with members of the Rail Delivery Group to deliver value for money across the network; and if he will make a statement.

2. Rail Review
asked by: Theresa Villiers
09/07/2020
... for what reasons findings and recommendations of the Williams Rail Review have not yet been published.

3. Rail Review
asked by: Matt Western
03/09/2020
... when he plans to publish the outcome of the Williams Rail Review.

4. Rail Review
asked by: Theresa Villiers
11/06/2020
... when he plans to publish the conclusions of the Williams Review on rail services.

5. Rail Review
asked by: Lilian Greenwood
19/03/2020
... on what date the Williams Rail Review was delivered to his Department; and for what reason the Government has not made a statement on that Review.

Latest Questions
10 Current APPG Officers
Andy Carter Portrait
Andy Carter
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Warrington South
Joined: 24th February 2020
Baroness Randerson Portrait
Baroness Randerson
Co-Secretary
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Clive Betts Portrait
Clive Betts
Treasurer
Labour - Sheffield South East
Joined: 28th September 2017
Mike Amesbury Portrait
Mike Amesbury
Officer
Labour - Weaver Vale
Joined: 13th February 2019
Drew Hendry Portrait
Drew Hendry
Officer
Scottish National Party - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Joined: 13th February 2019
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Andy Carter MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 3000.

Email: andy.carter.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

James Harkins, Light Rail (UK), Auchenshuggle Junction, 8 Beechmore Moore, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 6UE. Tel: 07721 378 223

Email: jimh@jimmyharkins.com

Group's Website:

http://www.applrguk.co.uk/

Benefits in Kind
Date
30 Jan 2020
Source
Light Rail (UK)
Description
Secretariat   From : 30/01/2020 To : 29/01/2021
Value
£16,501
Date
6 Sep 2018
Source
Light Rail (UK) acts as the group's secretariat
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2018 To : 05/09/2019
Value
£7,501
Date
6 Sep 2017
Source
Light Rail (UK) is funded by Driver Check and Train Ltd to act as the group's secretariat
Description
Secretariat   From : 06/09/2017 To : 05/09/2018
Value
£16,501
Date
14 Sep 2016
Source
Transport Training Services UK Group
Description
Secretariat   From : 14/09/2016 To : 13/09/2017
Value
£15,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Light Rail APPG

Former APPG Officers
Alan Brown Portrait
Alan Brown
Deputy Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
Tom Brake Portrait
Tom Brake
Deputy Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Carshalton and Wallington
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Rebecca Long Bailey Portrait
Rebecca Long Bailey
Officer
Labour - Salford and Eccles
Joined: 13th February 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Iain Stewart Portrait
Iain Stewart
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Milton Keynes South
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 18th July 2018
1 APPG Membership
Commercial Radio
Greg Mulholland Portrait
Greg Mulholland
Chair & Registered Contact
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for Leeds North West
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Graham Brady Portrait
Graham Brady
Vice Chair
Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Vice Chair
Labour - Nottingham South
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017