Rebecca Pow – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rebecca Pow on 2015-11-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the benefits of extending rail electrification from Bristol to Taunton.

Claire Perry

No such assessment has been made. Network Rail is currently assessing the case for further electrification of the rail network. It plans to publish a draft update to the industry electrification strategy in early 2016, taking into account the outcome of the review by Sir Peter Hendy of Network Rail’s programme of rail investment.