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Recommendation 24

24 Accepted in Part Paragraph: 102

We welcome the Government’s Future of Freight Plan and the promised work to identify a...

Conclusion
We welcome the Government’s Future of Freight Plan and the promised work to identify a National Freight Network. We look forward to seeing more detail about how modal shift of freight to rail will be achieved through the IRP core pipeline in particular.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government is working on a Long-Term Strategy for Rail including opportunities for freight, recognizing the advantages of shifting freight from road to rail and will set a long-term rail freight growth target later this year; the government partially accepts the recommendation.
Paragraph Reference: 102
Government Response

The government responded to this report on 13 July 2023. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗