Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral evidence of 28 October 2019 to the Transport Committee, Qq42-44, if he will publish the evidence on passenger views of public ownership which has informed the ongoing Williams rail review.

In April 2019, the Williams Rail Review published ‘Trust in the Rail Sector’, a research report into passenger views on the rail sector. This is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/797926/trust-in-the-rail-sector.pdf.

Further research will be published alongside the White Paper based on the Review’s recommendations.