| Heading: |
Railways: Somerset |
| Question ID: |
1798122 |
| UIN: |
48762 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5252 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of the Strategic Outline Business Case by West Somerset Railway for linking Bishops Lydeard and Taunton. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-08 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Answer text: |
The Government believes that local authorities are best placed to decide on, and take forward, transport schemes that will most benefit their local areas. The Department does not currently have any plans to take forward development of Bishops Lydeard and... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |