Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 17 October 2017.
The original business case in 2012 that was the basis for the electrification decision included four electric trains per hour between Swansea and Cardiff, including local services, as I understand. Now, had the Welsh Government inserted a requirement for electric local services in the detailed franchise specification, as per this original business case, the Department for Transport would have found it nigh on impossible to reject electrification. So, hasn’t the Welsh Government missed an opportunity here? What are you going to now do, given the situation that we’re now in, to rectify the fact that Swansea’s not going to have the electrification that it was promised?