Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government who they have contracted to operate the Nottingham to Liverpool railway service from December 2021; and what estimate they have made of the financial implications of the decision to end the Norwich to Liverpool railway service at Nottingham from December 2021 in terms of (1) cost, and (2) revenue.

No decision has been made to date on which train operator will provide the Nottingham to Liverpool railway service from December 2021. The financial implications of ending the Norwich to Liverpool service at Nottingham were considered as part of the competition for the new East Midlands franchise.