Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

“What steps her Department is taking to support Small Business Saturday.”

Tabled: 23 November 2023Answered: 30 November 2023

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

Heidi Alexander

I speak regularly with the new integrated managing director of South Western, Lawrence Bowman, to ensure that he is doing absolutely everything that he can, from both a train operations and an infrastructure management perspective, to bear down on the disruption that the hon. Gentleman’s constituents have had to experience. I accept that over the last year, performance at South Western Railway has not been up to scratch, but I assure him that we will leave no stone unturned in making sure that his constituents have a better travel experience in future.