Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans for the electrification of the railway line between Stockport and Sheffield.

In Decarbonising Transport: a Better, Greener Britain, the government committed to deliver a net zero rail network by 2050. To do so we will electrify additional lines and encourage deployment of battery and hydrogen trains on lines where it makes economic and operational sense.

In relation to individual railway routes, the Great British Railways Transition Team will bring forward costed decarbonisation options for Government to carefully consider in terms of overall deliverability and affordability.