Question follow-through · 41996
Railways: Timetables
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which body will have the directing role in confirming operational timetables exploiting released capacity.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which body will have the directing role in confirming operational timetables exploiting released capacity.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department specifies the services it seeks to procure through its contracts with operators. Trains operate on very restricted infrastructure and timetables must be carefully planned to operate around other services. The scheduling service is conducte...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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