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Public Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to reduce private car ownership and improve the connectivity of public transport.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
8 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to reduce private car ownership and improve the connectivity of public transport.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    This Government recognises the importance of improving public transport to ensure that people have greater choice around how they travel and has recently confirmed its commitment to phasing out new cars that rely solely on internal combustion engines from...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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