Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which organisations his Department consulted on the design specifications used for mock-ups of Intercity Express Programme train sets.

The following organisations were consulted during the design of the InterCity Express Programme Mock Up: ASLEF, TSSA & RMT, CTC, Sustrans & Cycle-Rail Working Group, Members of the Young Railway Professionals, ORR, NoBo Interfleet and Lloyds Register, Passenger Focus, First Great Western, Inter City East Coast, bidders for the East Coast Franchise, Transport Scotland, Network Rail, ATOC, the NAO, Rail Future, the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), British Transport Police (BTP) and groups representing passengers with restricted mobility, the blind and partially sighted.