Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes were made by Network Rail to the relationship between the Technical Authority and the Regions in assuring health and safety throughout Network Rail's devolved Functions and Regions.

As part of Network Rail’s Putting Passengers First reorganisation changes to Network Rail’s Technical Authority allowed some assurance and functional audit roles to be devolved to the regions and closer to frontline teams. The Technical Authority retains the accountability for the functional audit plan and each Region retains its own responsibility to deliver the auditing work agreed as part of that functional audit plan.