Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of electrifying the rail line between Church Fenton and Leeds City station.
The £589m of funding released in July 2020 for the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), and subsequent funding announced in May 2021, has enabled early construction work and further development of electrification design for the sections of track between Manchester and Stalybridge, Huddersfield and Leeds, as well as Church Fenton and York. We are actively reviewing the case for TRU to deliver full electrification on the route, with construction decisions to be taken once TRU’s full business case is approved.