Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2017 to Question 117958 and to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118756, what information his Department holds on the basis for Northern Rail making a commercial decision to increase the frequency of trains from the current hourly service on the South Fylde line without upgrading the existing single-track line infrastructure.

The Department does not hold any information on the basis for Northern Rail making a commercial decision to increase the frequency of trains from the current hourly service on the South Fylde line without upgrading the existing single-track line infrastructure as it has been deemed not feasible as outlined in the previous Parliamentary question UIN 118756.