Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of cancelled planned rail services to and from Heaton Chapel station in 2022.

Through its timetable development process, Northern seeks to provide a robust and resilient service to customers that aims to reduce cancellations as much as possible.

The Department’s Rail North Partnership with Transport for the North continues to have regular discussions with Northern to manage the provision of services and work to reduce cancellations in the face of broad disruption across the network due to industrial action among other issues.