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DfT still unable to provide clarity on legislative timetable to set up GBR

Rhodri Clark
02 October 2025
 

The Department for Transport is still unable to say when the draft legislation for establishing Great British Railways will come to Parliament.

The DfT’s last published GBR update, in May, said that GBR is “coming soon” and will be “created around 12 months after legislation is passed”.

It now expects GBR to become operational ‘sometime in 2027’. Last winter, it was reported that Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander had told DfT officials that she...

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