Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of job losses in the rail supply chain in connection with his Department's decisions to pause and unpause the electrification of Midland Mainline and the North TransPennine Route; and what assessment he has made of the number of such job losses as a consequence of Hendy Review rescoping exercise of Control Period 5.

As a result of the replan exercise by Sir Peter Hendy, resources were redeployed to other projects within Network Rail. The Government is investing £40bn in the railways between 2014-19, which will be a significant boost to the rail supply chain.