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Mark Pritchard

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Attorney General’s Office
Monday 23rd February 2026

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The following extract is from Transport oral questions on 12 February 2026.
Mark Pritchard Portrait Mark Pritchard
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Could the Secretary of State reassure all my businesses and constituents in the Wrekin that there is no conflict of interest between Great British Railways and the Office of Rail and Road when deciding these applications?

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…I can also assure him that in the past I have been as supportive, from the Department for Transport, as Network Rail has been of the open access application from Wrexham, Shropshire and the west midlands, and I will maintain my support for the proposals going forward.

[Official Report, 12 February 2026; Vol. 780, c. 909.]

Written correction submitted by the Secretary of State for Transport, the right hon. Member for Swindon South (Heidi Alexander):

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