Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of speeding up the Midland Main Line service for travellers in Leicester and the East Midlands, as pledged in the Integrated Rail Plan; and how much of that cost will be met through new funding.

Journey time improvements for the East Midlands will be delivered through the planned HS2 East Core Network, which has a provision of £12.8bn (2019 prices) within the Integrated Rail Plan. This investment is all newly committed funding, and none of it is reallocated from other departments.