All change at the DfT: Robert Goodwill replaced, John Hayes is back and Claire Perry resigns

The minister for transport Robert Goodwill has been replaced by the Prime Minister after rail minister Claire Perry resigned.

The Prime Minister moved the transport minister Robert Goodwill to the Home Office and appointed John Hayes as transport minister after Perry resigned following chaos over the Govia Thameslink franchise which has seen hundreds of services scrapped. She had said earlier in the week that it "feels like a failure" and she did "not have the levers to pull to take the franchise back".

Hayes served from July 2014 to May 2015 as a junior transport minister with responsibility for national roads and Highways Agency reform, as the new transport minister, after earlier replacing the secretary of state Patrick McLoughlin with Chris Grayling.

Goodwill, who gets the job of immigration minister, had first as junior transport minister and then as the transport minister said that making room for cycling makes more room for cars, and overseen an active travel strategy that commits the Department to doubling cycling. Hayes, like Goodwill and prominent advocates of leaving the EU such as Bill Cash, is a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group which promotes free enterprise and opposes devolution.