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South West Main Line: Catering |
| Question ID: |
1813769 |
| UIN: |
HL8536 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5366 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Pidgeon
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| Asking Member handle: |
CarolinePidgeon
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@CarolinePidgeon
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the transfer of South Western Railway services into public ownership, what progress they have made towards providing catering services on longer distance routes, such as London Waterloo to Exeter. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-20 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4972 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
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| Answer text: |
South-Western Railway (SWR) successfully transferred into public ownership on the 25 May 2025. The current priorities of SWR are to improve operational performance and introduce the new Class 701 fleet. I have asked the new Managing Director of South-West... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |