Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether funding has been secured for a rollout of Train Wi-Fi across the Great Western Railway intercity fleet.

The Government is grateful to Peninsula Transport for supporting the successful trial of high-speed Wi-Fi on a Great Western Railway train. Building on this work, we plan to improve on-train Wi-Fi across mainline services, including Great Western Railway. The business case for this wider rollout is progressing through the Government’s normal funding and approval processes, with funding subject to the outcome of those processes. A decision will be announced once they are complete.