Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the planned electrification of the Hope Valley line between Sheffield and Manchester has entered the Rail Networks Enhancements Pipeline; what estimate he has made of the project's final cost; and when he plans the project will be complete.

The industry is in the early stages of planning its next steps to bring the Hope Valley scheme into the Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline. Like all projects it will be progressed and developed in line with the principles of Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment (PACE), which is the usual approach used by the industry.