Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to increase passenger capacity on trains between Bradford and (a) Manchester and (b) Leeds.

Rail commuters into Manchester will benefit from an almost 30% increase in capacity on Northern services in the morning peak and for rail commuters into Leeds a 37% increase. By December 2019, an extra 18 Northern services per day will be introduced.

On Sundays 2 trains per hour will be provided, up from 1 per hour today, and new hourly services to Manchester Airport and Liverpool via Manchester using brand new trains.

Between Bradford and Leeds, a new direct link will be introduced to Wakefield, Sheffield, Chesterfield and Nottingham via Leeds, with at least 10 services per day in each direction operated by brand new diesel trains.