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.