Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to amend the (a) Northern, (b) Transpennine Express and (c) East Midlands Trains franchise as a result of the delay to the introduction of the May 2018 timetable.

There are no plans to amend the Franchise Agreements as there are existing provisions within the current agreements that deal with delays to planned timetable changes resulting from variations to infrastructure assumptions made at the time of the franchise bidding process.