Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the level of congestion at Mill Hill Broadway railway station in the (a) last three months and (b) the next five years.

Network Rail’s East Midlands Route Study published earlier this year identified Mill Hill Broadway as a station needing passenger congestion relief by 2023 in Control Period 6 (CP6). The Government intends to articulate in 2017 its emerging priorities for improvements to train services and the national rail network for CP6.

It is the responsibility of the station operator to ensure that platforms are managed safely and to have measures in place to deal with the risks from over-crowding. The Department will keep under review any identified congestion through periodic review and franchising processes.