Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 37853

Railways: Infrastructure

Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 17 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Laurence Turner

LabourBirmingham Northfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Office of Rail and Road's letter to Network Rail of 11 February 2025, entitled Management of structures – structures examination and assessment noncompliance, what recent assessment she ha

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), in its capacity as the independent rail safety regulator for Great Britain, is responsible for assessing the adequacy of the measures taken by Network Rail to examine, assess and evaluate the safety of the structural ass...

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