Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many infrastructure assets were determined by Network Rail to require assessment for weather-related infrastructure impacts in respect of (a) bridge scour, (b) earthworks susceptibility, (c) flood sites, (d) heat, (e) rainfall, (f) snow and (g) wind in 2020.
Network Rail inspected more than 1,000 assets in the last year, including 584 sites in the three weeks following the Carmont derailment. Of these sites, only 1% were identified as having defects that had deteriorated and required action sooner than planned.