Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish (a) his plans on establishing a rail operation centre in York, (b) the role of that centre in the delivery of the Integrated Rail Plan, and (c) operational coverage of that centre after the Integrated Rail Plan has been delivered.

Network Rail has already established a Rail Operations Centre in York which is expected to run part of the network set out in the IRP. It is envisaged this centre will fulfil an increasingly important role as railway signalling systems are modernised