Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with Crosscountry trains on increasing capacity on rail routes in Newton Abbot constituency.

The Department has funded 12 additional Voyager trains (60 carriages) for the CrossCountry network. Three trains are already in service with the next one due to be brought into service in April. The remaining eight trains are due to enter service with CrossCountry in May. This will increase the Voyager train fleet and enable CrossCountry to provide many more seats on its network including the Edinburgh to Plymouth route.