Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide for the welfare of (a) staff and (b) passengers on trains without air conditioning.

Air conditioning is now installed on the majority of trains on Great Britain’s mainline rail network. Where air conditioning is not available, train operators are taking other steps to ventilate trains, including opening windows throughout journeys and opening train doors at stations where possible.