Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the ability of the rail industry to respond to recent storm events.

The Department is engaging regularly with Network Rail, train operating companies and the wider rail industry to ensure their seasonal preparedness plans are in place with clear mitigations outlined to minimise disruption due to storms.

Network Rail and train operators have well-established operational measures to manage services safely during incidents affecting railway operations, including extreme weather events.

In context, it has been a particularly stormy autumn and winter, with ten named storms this season so far.