Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce carbon emissions produced by railway infrastructure construction.

Reducing carbon emissions from railway infrastructure construction is necessary to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Network Rail’s Decarbonisation Programme is examining how future infrastructure can be built in a more carbon-efficient way, including by reusing, repurposing or redeploying materials.

The Government funds RSSB research on reducing embedded carbon reduction and supports the development of carbon measurement tools, which will help industry measure and reduce carbon from construction.