Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 98787

Railways: West Midlands

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Wendy Morton

ConservativeAldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Railways Bill on service reliability of rail routes (a) connecting Birmingham and Walsall and (b) the rest of the West Midlands.

Answer

Keir Mather
The Railways Bill includes the introduction of Great British Railways (GBR) which will be a new public company responsible for providing the single point of leadership our railways sorely need, squarely accountable to its passengers for the service it del...

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