Question follow-through · 21359

Railway Network: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the safety and resilience of the rail network to a) flash flooding, b) prolonged drought and c) other environmental and weather impacts associated with a warming climate.

answeredDepartment for Transport

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Transport

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the safety and resilience of the rail network to a) flash flooding, b) prolonged drought and c) other environmental and weather impacts associated with a warming climate.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The rail industry is taking a range of measures to improve the safety and resilience of the railway to the effects of climate change.Flash flooding: Network Rail is investing in improved drainage systems, flood resilience schemes, remote monitoring techno...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Public Transport: Fares

9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to a) detect individuals who persistently evade fares on public transport, b) prevent those individuals from future fare evasion, and c) recover money owed to public transport networks