Question follow-through · 35856

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her plans for Great British Railways will end the practice of cancelling stops to make services run faster once trains have set off.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 5 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 7 Mar 2025
Answer: 13 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her plans for Great British Railways will end the practice of cancelling stops to make services run faster once trains have set off.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government’s plans for rail reform will deliver an accountable and integrated public body, Great British Railways (GBR), which will take decisions on the use of the railway in the public interest and deliver Government priorities. GBR will plan and im...

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