Question follow-through · 98733
Railways: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the resilience of rail networks during periods of extreme winter weather.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the resilience of rail networks during periods of extreme winter weather.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Department officials hold regular discussions with Network Rail and the industry to ensure severe weather preparedness plans are in place with clear mitigations to reduce the impacts of weather on the rail network. The industry’s winter preparedness regim...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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