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registered interest
date	07/07/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on his Department's plans for electrification of the Midland Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	42177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Midland Main Line programme will deliver electrification of the Midland Main Line from Bedford to Kettering and Corby by 2019 and from Kettering to Nottingham and Sheffield via Derby by 2023. Following the vote taken by the British people for the UK to leave the European Union on 23 June their will must be respected and delivered. The Prime Minister has been clear that the negotiation for Britain's future relationship with Europe will need to begin under a new Prime Minister. In the meantime, the Department continues working to deliver the Government agenda, including the above electrification programme.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/07/2016 10:51:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

451055

registered interest
date	05/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what works will be required south of Bedford to enable Midland Mainline electrification north of Bedford.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	26028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>The scope for Midland Main Line electrification includes making appropriate adjustment to the Fast Line Overhead Line Equipment between London St Pancras and Bedford South Junction.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/02/2016 11:03:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

423917

registered interest
date	26/10/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his current estimate is of when the (a) electrification and (b) improvement of the Midland mainline will be completed (i) in Northamptonshire and (ii) for the whole line.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	13501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>Electrification of the line should be completed north from Bedford to Ketteringand Corby in Northamptonshire by 2019 and the whole line north from Kettering to Leicester / Derby/ Nottingham &amp; Sheffield by 2023.</p><br /><p>Network Rail is proposing that line speed and capacity improvement works forming the remainder of the improvement works to the line will be co-ordinated with electrification in order to minimise disruption to passengers on the route.</p><p>Sir Peter Hendy has been asked to review Network Rail’s enhancement portfolio, so that works may be delivered over a more realistic timeframe. When we receive his report, expected later in the autumn, we will be able to announce more about the programme for the capacity and line speed works planned for the Midland Mainline.</p><br /> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/11/2015 12:39:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

390459

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects work on the electrification of the Midland Mainline to resume; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Amanda Solloway
uin	7216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>On 25<sup>th</sup> June the Secretary of State announced that work on Midland Main Line electrification was being paused pending Sir Peter Hendy’s proposals this autumn on re-planning the Control Period 5 programme, at which point the Secretary of State will make a statement to the House. It would be premature to speculate now on the outcome of the re-plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 20/07/2015 14:52:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway

385557

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on the electrification of the Midland Mainline; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	4179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>We are pausing electrification works on Midland Mainline pending the proposals we have commissioned from Sir Peter Hendy in the autumn for how the rail upgrade programme will be carried out. On the Midland Mainline, better services can be delivered on that line before electrification using capacity and speed improvement works. The progress already made to enable the electrification of the Midland Mainline includes detailed design, bridge construction and some of the piling for overhead masts. This work will assist with our future plans for the electrification of the route.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/06/2015 14:48:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

385617

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to change the (a) extent and (b) scope of the Midland Main Line electrification project.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	4162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>On the Midland mainline, better services can be delivered on that line before electrification using capacity and speed improvement works. We are pausing electrification works and a review has been commissioned from Sir Peter Hendy which will report in the autumn for how the rail upgrade programme will be carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/06/2015 13:03:45 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

384627

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what works have been undertaken to enable the electrification of the Midland Main Line to date; and what the value is of (a) contracts entered into by Network Rail in connection with the project and (b) the work undertaken by his Department before that project was included in the 2012 High Level Output Specification.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	3449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>Work undertaken to enable the electrification of the Midland Main line includes detailed design, bridge construction and some of the piling for overhead masts.　 The financial value of work undertaken by the Department before the project was included in the 2012 High Level Output Specification cannot be differentiated from other development work undertaken in preparation for the Specification.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/06/2015 12:07:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101990

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what works will be required to overhead wiring south of Bedford as a result of the Midland Main Line electrification programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Midland Mainline is already electrified from London to Bedford. Work to improve resilience has already begun to prepare the route south of Bedford for the greater number of trains that will run and the higher speeds of the intercity electric trains. This work includes upgrading power supplies and other components.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:28:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood