Question follow-through · 4861
West Coast Main Line: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) signalling safety, (b) service reliability and (c) maintenance on the West Coast Mainline.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) signalling safety, (b) service reliability and (c) maintenance on the West Coast Mainline.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government is clear that performance on the West Coast Main Line has not been good enough with too many cancellations and delays.Ministers recently met with the Managing Director of Avanti West Coast and the Network Rail West Coast South Route Directo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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