Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Integrated Rail Plan, what specific upgrades are planned for the line connecting Liverpool and Warrington; and when his Department plans to deliver them by.

Options for upgrading the line between Liverpool and Warrington have been developed by Network Rail as part of its work on Northern Powerhouse Rail undertaken for my Department and Transport for the North. The scope of these will now be refined in the next stage of development work.