Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 20 November (HL11313), whether any steps are available to them quickly to alleviate overcrowding on the Cross Country Trains network.
Currently, there is no suitable rolling stock available that could be used on this franchise in the short term to alleviate the services which suffer overcrowding. We are, however, working with Cross Country on a potential Direct Award to see what rolling stock and/or trains service changes might be possible to tackle this issue.