Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will publish the Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment status of planned upgrades to Ferryhill Station.

All the projects within Network North will be progressed and developed in line with the principles of Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment (PACE), which is the approach used by Network Rail to govern, manage and progress rail enhancements. Many of these projects are at the start of that process, reflecting their nature as new priorities, while other schemes had already made progress ahead of the announcement. The project was initially proposed by Durham County Council who led on the initial development work. Since being confirmed for progression, the Department has further developed the project's business case, looking at route capacity, station locations and has updated the forecast costs. The next PACE stage for the Ferryhill station project will be Engineering Stage 1.