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If the Department for Transport and the Secretary of State publish her rail strategy first and then at some point in the future you end up negotiating a memorandum of understanding and publishing that, it does not really give a very clear sense about what the joined-up strategy is. Having things published at the same time will drive a level of consistency in working between the Governments. They will have to think about what their individual rail strategies look like and how they all fit together. That would be a very sensible thing to do and will promote a sensible level of working across borders.