Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 101169

South Western Railway: Standards

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Rachel Blake

Labour (Co-op)Cities of London and Westminster

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the performance of South Western Railway.

Answer

Keir Mather
The new Managing Director of South Western Railway (SWR), Lawrence Bowman, is responsible for both the infrastructure and operations of the SWR network. The new integrated team is working hard to address the issues inherited from the previous private sect...

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