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House of Commons · Ministers' Questions

Rail Passenger Numbers

Thursday 24 June 2021 · 2 questions

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Answered 0 Partly answered 2 Not answered 0

Key points

  • Government working with rail industry to develop recovery initiatives to restore passenger confidence
  • Support for community rail partnerships expected to grow in the coming years
  • Community rail at heart of recent White Paper on rail reform

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Paul Maynard Con
Transport
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Question

What steps the Government plan to take to increase the number of rail passengers.

Answer from Grant Shapps

We are working with the rail industry to develop a number of recovery initiatives focused on restoring passenger confidence in rail travel.

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Q2 Paul Maynard Con
Transport
Context

The question follows the initial inquiry about increasing rail passenger numbers, with a focus on marketing and enhancing local services.

Question

Given the importance of improving train passenger numbers once the nation has fully reopened, marketing rail travel will be crucial if only to keep the Treasury happy. What support will the Secretary of State give to community rail partnerships up and down the country, which do so much to enhance the quality of local services, not just in planting out flowerbeds and making stations more attractive but in attracting the leisure passengers that we will need to travel on all our railway lines in ever greater numbers?

Answer from Grant Shapps

As a distinguished former Rail Minister, my hon. Friend will be pleased to hear that community rail is very much at the heart of the recent White Paper on rail reform. He can expect to see our commitment to rail community partnerships grow in the years to come, which will, I hope, fulfil the ambitions he set out during his time as Rail Minister.

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Not addressed: The answer did not provide specific support or commitments for community rail partnerships and was vague about future actions.

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