Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the total cost of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.

The government has not made any recent estimate of the cost of electrification of the North Wales Mainline. It is more than ten years since Network Rail were last asked to consider the electrification of this line. That work would need to be fully refreshed, taking account of current electrification technologies.