Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve wifi on LNER; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of that wifi performance over the past three years.

Wi-Fi connectivity across the rail network has historically been patchy. This is why my Department has secured funding through the 2025 Spending Review to install low earth orbit satellite connectivity on all mainline trains by 2030, to improve Wi-Fi speeds and reliability. London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the Department for Transport Operator (DFTO) are working together to deliver these improvements. In addition, Project Reach was launched by Network Rail in 2025 to eliminate mobile blackspots on the East Coast Mainline, West Coast Mainline and Great Western routes.