Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 90335

Railways: Franchises

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mechanisms her Department will establish to safeguard commercially sensitive route proposals made by open access rail operators.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Railways Bill will reform the existing rules for access and use of the railway by enabling GBR to take decisions on best use of the network. GBR will make these decisions against duties clearly defined in the bill, public law principles including to a...

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