Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Transport of 27 February 2018, Official Report, column 793, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of trains in the north of England which will be (a) replaced and (b) refurbished by 2020.

The Northern franchise will introduce 281 new vehicles (equivalent to 37% of the current fleet*) into the franchise from 2018 onwards to replace the 208 ‘Pacers’. 82% of the Northern fleet will be refurbished.

84% of TransPennine Express trains will be refurbished ‘as new’ by July 2018, with the remaining 16% being replaced.

*based on numbers on day one of the franchise