Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is her department taking to improve rail infrastructure resistance against extreme heat damage.

Network Rail continue to invest in making the railway more resilient to increasingly extreme weather. As part of its £2.6 billion weather resilience investment programme during Control Period 7 (2024 to 2029), it is improving drainage, earthworks, track and power infrastructure, while expanding the use of monitoring and predictive technologies that help it identify emerging risks earlier and take proactive action.