Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much is LNER is planning to spend on the construction of new car parking facilities in the next five years; and how many new car parking spaces will be created.

Over the next five-years London North Eastern Rail (LNER) plan to construct a new car park at Berwick-Upon-Tweed station at a cost of approximately £2,100,000. This will create an additional 105 car parking spaces at the station. In addition, LNER will continue the rollout of Auto Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) at all 11 stations manged by LNER at approximately £1,200,000 and install a power supply at both Grantham and Peterborough stations, in advance of a third party supplying the electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, to enable the trailing of EV charging points at approximately £850,000.