Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 53 of the Williams-Shapps Plan for rail, when in 2022 the Department plans to publish its comprehensive environment plan for the railways.
The Secretary of State set out in May 2021 the government’s ambitions for Britain’s railways through the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail. This included the commissioning of a comprehensive environment plan, to be delivered in 2022, from Great British Railways. As part of a call for evidence launched by the transition team charged with setting up Great British Railways, the Government set out in December that ‘delivering environmental sustainability’ would be one of the long-term objectives for the rail sector. I look forward to providing further updates on the development of the plan.