Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in preparation for the re-letting of the East Midlands Train franchise, what estimate they have made of the overall journey times for (1) a bi-mode train, and (2) an electric alternative, between London and Sheffield.

In 2016 Atkins, on behalf of the Department for Transport, undertook analysis on the business case for electrification and other route enhancements of the Midland Main Line route from Bedford north to Corby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. A copy of this is in the House library; Chapter 3 (pp 17-24) has the required timings for those journeys.