Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the electrification of the TransPennine Rail Network.

The Transpennine Route Upgrade is currently in the design and development phase. An investment decision will be made early next year and target delivery is by December 2022.

High level outputs include improvements to journey times (such as a target time of 40 minutes for fast trains from Leeds to Manchester), the ability to run longer trains offering more seats on both long distance and local services and improvements to overall performance on the whole route.