Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 89595

Great British Railways: Functions

Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the cost implications of transferring research and advisory functions from Network Rail to Great British Railways.

Answer

Keir Mather
Network Rail and its functions will become a foundational part of Great British Railways (GBR) as it is stood up. It is therefore unlikely that there will be significant costs in transferring functions currently within Network Rail into GBR. However, deta...

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