Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 50642

Railways: Tourism

Tabled: 7 May 2025
Answered: 13 May 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Leisure travel tops charts for reasons people choose rail, published on 9 April 2025, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential imp

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Department has not made an assessment of the potential implications for the tourism industry of the recent research findings. The research provides a snapshot of rail travel in England at the time of fieldwork, and the data will help inform DfT’s mode...
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