Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 97699

Network Rail: Energy

Tabled: 5 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the levels of Network Rail’s energy costs.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
Network Rail is required to consider value for taxpayers’ money in the way that it runs the railway. This includes in relation to energy costs. External factors, including the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have driven fluctuations in energy price...

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