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date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department notified bidders for the TransPennine Express Rail franchise that rail electrification would not be delivered on the original timetable.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	4937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Invitation To Tender for the TransPennine Express competition was issued in February, formally notifying bidders that they should not assume that Trans-Pennine electrification would be completed for the purposes of their bids.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 06/07/2015 13:05:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

386773

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the effect of the delay to electrification of the Transpennine line on procurement of new rolling stock for the Transpennine franchise.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	4938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The TransPennine Express Invitation to Tender, published on 27 February 2015, did not require bidders to procure electric rolling stock for the trans-Pennine route, on the basis that this would be delivered through changes to the Franchise Agreement that would be negotiated during the new franchise when the detailed plans for electrification were in place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The franchise specification requires bidders to deliver a substantial increase in capacity into the major cities in the north of England by December 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 06/07/2015 13:17:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson