Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on his Department's plans to electrify the (a) Midland Main Line and (b) North Transpennine Route; and what Network Rail's estimated expenditure has been in each of those projects to date.

Work is ongoing to deliver the Midland Main Line programme, which includes electrification as well as capacity and journey time improvement works, and we are on track to deliver the next key output milestone by 2019 which will enable the next East Midlands franchise to deliver more capacity and faster journeys. Network Rail's estimated expenditure to date on this programme is approximately £330 million (cash prices).

The Transpennine Route Upgrade, which intends to deliver faster journeys and increased capacity between Manchester, Leeds and York by the end of 2022, is currently in the design and development phase. It is not possible to separate the cost of the work on proposed electrification from the other development costs.