Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) she and (b) officials in her Department had discussions with LNER on the (i) commissioning and (ii) publication of the report entitled “Impact of Open Access Operations on LNER – at stations with direct LNER services”, published on 10th April 2025.

Train operators are not required to seek the Department for Transport’s approval for business-as-usual research funded within their approved budgets.