Improving Transport

Part of 3. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 12 November 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:29, 12 November 2019

Well, as I explained in my earlier answer, Llywydd, we want to lose the Pacer trains from the network and would have been able to have done that had the companies who had contracted to supply new rolling stock to the Welsh network delivered on the promises that they made. That is not a failure of the Welsh Government. Those orders had been placed, those plans had been made, but the companies, having contracted to deliver the rolling stock, have now failed to do that. We remain in conversations, as I said, with the Department for Transport, to go on using Pacer trains in the short run until that new rolling stock does become available. But it has never been the long-term plan of Transport for Wales or the Government to go on relying on Pacer trains far into the future.