Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“Whether he has made recent representations to his counterpart in Saudi Arabia on (a) the use of the death penalty and (b) potential human rights violations in that country.”
Tabled: 7 December 2022Answered: 13 December 2022
Asked by
Chris Bryant
Labour — Rhondda and Ogmore
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Transport (Heidi Alexander)
Open access operators will continue to have a place in our reformed Great British railways. We have supported new proposals from Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway, and existing track access rights will be honoured. Open access can provide benefits, but it must not come at the cost of better services for passengers and better value for taxpayers.