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Freight

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 20 January 2026UIN 104866

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made in identifying a National Freight Network.

Answered by Keir Mather

The 2022 Future of Freight plan committed to developing a fuller understanding of our domestic freight network from a multimodal perspective, before considering how it could be consolidated into a National Freight Network.

The Department is making good progress towards the goal of improving understanding of the freight and logistics system as an integrated multimodal network. This progress includes identifying, developing, and delivering a package of measures to enhance key data and insights capabilities.

Further detail on these measures and the overarching approach we are taking forward will be provided in the upcoming publication of the new plan for freight.

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