Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 68507
Trams
Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 25 July 2025
Question
Dan Carden
Labour — Liverpool 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 LightwoodThe 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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