Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the passenger figures are for each of the last five years for the Transpennine Cleethorpes to Manchester service; and what information is held on the number of people who (a) alight and (b) board in (i) Doncaster and (ii) Sheffield.

The Department for Transport holds this information on a commercially confidential basis. However, as I stated in the debate of 16 July, Official Report, column 984, I am happy to consider whether the Department can release such information and I will meet with the Hon. Member and other Hon. Members for the local area shortly.