Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to agree to the business case to upgrade Pokesdown station in Bournemouth East constituency.

My Officials have approved the plans for improvements at Pokesdown for Boscombe station and tenders to carry out the detailed design work on the lifts are in the process of being reviewed by Network Rail. There will be a further tendering exercise following on from this to secure an accurate cost for construction. Stakeholders have been kept informed of progress via a public meeting in September and will be kept regularly updated as the scheme progresses.