Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Rail)

Organisations: Department for Transport

Current role holder: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE

Responsibilities

The Rail Minister is responsible for:聽

• rail transformation and reform聽
• rail markets聽
• rail infrastructure聽
• High Speed 2 (HS2)聽
• international rail聽
• rail freight聽
• rail accessibility聽
• rail decarbonisation聽
• the British Transport Police
• Office of Rail and Road (ORR)

Current role holder

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Transport on 8 July 2024.

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• Leisure travel tops charts for reasons people choose rail
  • 08 April 2025
  • Press release
• Passenger experience put first in multimillion pound competition driving rail innovation
  • 06 April 2025
  • Press release
• East West Rail services planned to begin this year as Chiltern Railways named operator
  • 25 March 2025
  • Press release
• Updates to National Technical Specification Notices for rail interoperability
  • 05 March 2025
  • Written statement
• Trials for contactless ticketing in the North and Midlands takes another step closer
  • 26 February 2025
  • Press release
• Simpler train travel for the South East as contactless ticketing rolls out at 47 more stations
  • 20 January 2025
  • Press release
• Operators in public ownership to keep customers moving during disruption
  • 20 December 2024
  • Press release
• Transport Secretary sets out 5 key priorities to deliver the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation
  • 10 July 2024
  • Press release

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