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712606

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date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Felixstowe Branch Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 14 March (HL5764), whether they would look favourably on a proposal to use a high quality rail replacement bus service in place of a passenger train at less busy times on the rail line between Ipswich and Felixstowe if it were to be brought forward by the operator and Network Rail.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL6201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>If a proposal were to be brought forward by the train operator and Network Rail, we would consider it carefully. No proposal has however been submitted. The specification and provision of rail replacement services is a commercial and operational matter for the operator and Network Rail, not the Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 27/03/2017 13:22:20 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

711174

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Felixstowe Branch Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 14 March (HL5764), what assessment they have made of the extent to which the use of a rail replacement bus service in place of passenger trains at less busy times on the rail line between Ipswich and Felixstowe would fulfil the public service obligations of (1) the operator, and (2) Network Rail.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL6062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made by the Department of the extent to which the use of rail replacement bus service in place for passenger trains at less busy times on the rail line between Ipswich and Felixstowe would fulfil the public service obligation of the operator, and Network Rail.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 21/03/2017 12:30:08 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

706911

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Felixstowe Branch Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the shortage of capacity on the rail line between Ipswich and Felixstowe for both freight and passenger services, what consideration they have given to the use of a high quality rail replacement bus service in place of a passenger train at less busy times.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL5764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The specification and provision of rail replacement ‎ services is a commercial and operational matter for the operator and Network Rail.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/03/2017 12:26:14 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw