Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2020 to Question 118090 on Railways, what the areas are that have been identified by his Department as impacting on the rail industry and the rail network.

Although there is no rail-specific chapter in the UK-EU negotiations, there are a number of cross-cutting areas which are of interest and will have an impact on the rail industry. This includes, for example, labour mobility arrangements, cross-border trade in services and investment rules, cross-border trade in goods arrangements, rules on subsidies and customs and border arrangements.

DfT officials have been working closely with other government departments on these cross-cutting areas to ensure the interests of the rail industry are fully taken into account in the UK-EU negotiations.