Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December to Question 116379, for what reasons his Department will not specify whether Leigh was discussed as part of the range of issues discussed between his Department, Transport for Greater Manchester and Transport for the North.

As stated previously, the Secretary of State has regular meetings with both Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Transport for the North (TfN) where a range of issues are discussed.

We do not comment on the issues that are discussed at individual meetings, regardless of the subject.

This is to enable full and frank discussions between the Government and our partners at TfN and TfGM.