Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department will publish the terms of reference for a study into high speed rail between Sheffield and Leeds.
The Terms of Reference for the HS2 to Leeds Study will be published soon.
In the meantime, the Department has been working with Network Rail and key local stakeholders - including West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Council –to prepare for the work anticipated in the HS2 to Leeds Study.