Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 114711
Rolling Stock: Leasing
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Alex Ballinger
Labour — Halesowen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing train leasing companies into public ownership, including to achieve a fair price for leasing rolling stock.
Answer
Keir MatherRolling stock companies own and lease trains and carriages worth billions of pounds. It would not be responsible for the Government to take on the cost of renationalising all the rolling stock at the present time, as there are other urgent pressures on th...
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