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Question follow-through · 16157

Railways: Nationalisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of maintaining regional livery designs as railway franchises are brought back into public ownership.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
26 Nov 2024
Target answer date
28 Nov 2024
Answer
4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of maintaining regional livery designs as railway franchises are brought back into public ownership.

  2. 28 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Department has not assessed the potential merits of maintaining regional livery designs as railway franchises are brought back into public ownership.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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