Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 68507

Trams

Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 25 July 2025

Question

Dan Carden

LabourLiverpool Walton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to take steps to ensure that new tramway schemes use domestically produced tramway rails.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The responsibility for light rail and tramways is devolved, where each local authority owns and is responsible for the development and delivery of their own system. Therefore, it would be for local authorities to specify criteria for any future tram schem...

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