Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guarantees his Department has received from train manufacturers on the proportion of trains that will use UK (a) parts and (b) suppliers.

Rolling stock procurement is undertaken through fair and open competition, usually by train operators as part of their franchise commitments. As such the Department has received no guarantees in respect of the UK proportion of parts and suppliers that rolling stock manufacturers use for the construction of their trains.