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Airports: Railways

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 89008, tabled on 16 November 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has he made of trends in the number of passengers travelling by rail to airports in each of the last five years.

Answered on

23 November 2022

The Government’s position, as set out in the 2013 Aviation Policy Framework, is that airports should have surface access strategies including an analysis of existing surface access arrangements and targets for increasing the proportion of journeys made to the airport by public transport by passengers and employees.