Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)’s Freight Electrification Map Commentary, published on 2 March, which found that “electrifying [these] ‘infill’ sections, which total less than 60 miles, would allow around 2 million train miles a year to be decarbonised”; and what plans they have to adopt that recommendation.

We are in the process of reviewing the report and its findings. It is too early to say whether we have any plans to adopt the recommendations.