Question follow-through · 101169
South Western Railway: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the performance of South Western Railway.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the performance of South Western Railway.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The new Managing Director of South Western Railway (SWR), Lawrence Bowman, is responsible for both the infrastructure and operations of the SWR network. The new integrated team is working hard to address the issues inherited from the previous private sect...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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