Oral QuestionMinistry of Defence

“What recent assessment he has made of the financial sustainability of the Vanguard-class life extension programme.”

Tabled: 8 January 2019Answered: 14 January 2019

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Defence

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Keir Mather)

To improve the unreliable services that plagued the rail network under the previous Government, and to improve the experience of using the railway, this Government are bringing services into public ownership and creating Great British Railways. This generational reform is already improving passengers’ experience of rail services, as cancellations are starting to fall after years of decline.