To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what guidance his Department has issued to Network Rail on the requirement for environmental impact assessments to be undertaken in respect of its telecommunications masts under the terms of the EU Directive on Strategic Environmental Assessment, 2001/42/EC. (323159)

The Department for Transport has given no explicit advice to Network Rail on the requirement to undertake environmental impact assessments under the terms of EU Directive 2001/42/EC.