Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Second Report of the Transport Committee entitled The Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands, published on 27 July 2022, HC 292, if he will implement the recommendation to publish the full technical appraisals of the feasibility of the time reductions identified in the Integrated Rail Plan.

The Government is considering the Transport Committee’s report. We intend to provide an update later this year, and a full response by March 2023.