Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the statement by Pete Waterman, Chairman of the Cheshire and Warrington Local Transport Board published on 31 December 2018, what plans he has for the tunnel and junction at Crewe North and the Golborne Link near Warrington, and if he will make a statement.

The HS2 Phase 2b route was confirmed in the July 2017 Command Paper, ‘High Speed Two: from Crewe to Manchester, West Midlands to Leeds and beyond’, including a tunnel at Crewe and the Golborne link at Warrington.

Any junction north of Crewe back to the HS2 mainline to Manchester will be considered separately as part of Crewe Hub decision making.