Question follow-through · 62142
Cross Country Trains: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Crosscountry trains on the performance of its services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with Crosscountry trains on the performance of its services.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Rail Minister met with the interim CrossCountry Managing Directors on 8 August 2024 and 28 March 2025 and the new Managing Director on 25 June 2025. It has been made clear that CrossCountry need to deliver material improvements to their train services...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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