Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many infrastructure assets were identified by Network Rail as requiring action to protect or repair the asset as a result of weather-related infrastructure impacts in 2020.
Network Rail inspected more than 1,000 assets in the last year, including 584 sites in the three weeks following the Carmont derailment. Of these sites, only 1% were identified as having defects that had deteriorated and required action sooner than planned.