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1249942

registered interest
date	05/11/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has for investment in the Birmingham-Black Country-Shrewsbury Line.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	112109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2020 answer text <p>Midlands Connect are developing proposals to improve journey times between Birmingham and Shrewsbury. We expect to receive a business case in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Proposals are also being developed to improve the service using existing infrastructure, including adding an additional London to Shrewsbury via Birmingham service on a Sunday morning from May 21 and an extra Shrewsbury to London via Birmingham return service on Weekdays and Saturdays from December 2022. These proposals are subject to an assessment of COVID impacts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/11/2020 15:25:33 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1235205

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people use the train service between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton monthly on average.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	90982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>Passenger demand flows between specific stations and on specific routes are not publicly available as this data is commercially sensitive. However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on the estimates of the total number of passengers entering and exiting each station in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>The table below, which includes the number of station entries and exits at Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, may be of interest.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of station entries and exits, 2018-19 financial year</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Station name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Entries and exits</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury</p></td><td><p>2,226,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>5,305,432</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Data for additional stations and years are available at:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/</a></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 24/09/2020 12:08:02 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1235208

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much carbon dioxide is emitted annually by diesel-only trains between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	90983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions on a route by route basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 25/09/2020 12:04:02 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1234195

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many journeys are made on average annually between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton by train.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	89644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>Passenger demand flows between specific stations and on specific routes are not publicly available as this data is commercially sensitive. However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on the estimates of the total number of passengers entering and exiting each station in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>The table below, which includes the number of station entries and exits at Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, may be of interest.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of station entries and exits, 2018-19 financial year</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Station name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Entries and exits</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury</p></td><td><p>2,226,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>5,305,432</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Data for additional stations and years are available at:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/</a></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 89645 question first answered 22/09/2020 12:12:36 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1234199

registered interest
date	14/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people use the train service between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury annually on average.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	89645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>Passenger demand flows between specific stations and on specific routes are not publicly available as this data is commercially sensitive. However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on the estimates of the total number of passengers entering and exiting each station in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>The table below, which includes the number of station entries and exits at Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, may be of interest.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of station entries and exits, 2018-19 financial year</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Station name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Entries and exits</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury</p></td><td><p>2,226,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>5,305,432</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Data for additional stations and years are available at:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/</a></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 89644 question first answered 22/09/2020 12:12:36 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1203616

registered interest
date	15/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) affordability and (b) quality of rail travel in (i) Coventry and (ii) the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	59621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has frozen regulated rail fares in line with inflation for the seventh year in a row.</p><p> </p><p>The future introduction of HS2 will help improve the quality of rail travel across Coventry and the West Midlands, but there are initiatives that are making a real difference now:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>In May 2019, West Midlands Trains (WMT) introduced through services and longer trains between Leamington and Nuneaton via Coventry.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>WMT is investing £700million to introduce 180 brand new carriages and add 20,000 more peak hour seats into Birmingham in the next couple of years.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Subject to the approval of Avanti’s proposal by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), Walsall will receive its first direct Intercity West Coast services to London in 2021, while Coventry and the West Midlands are due to benefit from additional services on weekends from 2021, and earlier weekday morning services from December 2022.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>We are investing to provide additional carriages to increase capacity on CrossCountry (XC) services at Coventry and across the West Midlands from 2021.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 23/06/2020 13:28:34 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1178015

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library notes of meetings between Network Rail and (a) Ministers and officials of his Department and (b) the Mayor of the West Midlands on train services in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	1256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Providing notes of (a) meetings between Network Rail and Ministers and officials about train services in the West Midlands would involve disproportionate costs to collect and collate as the request covers interactions with five train operating companies, which are likely to be commercially sensitive so would also require redacting. As regards (b) the Department would not have access to notes of any meetings between Network Rail and the Mayor of the West Midlands about train services in the West Midlands.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 24/02/2020 16:11:35 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1174524

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to improve rail services in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Stourbridge
tabling member printed	Suzanne Webb
uin	900522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Major investment is planned to improve rail services throughout the region. In the West Midlands, £700m is being invested in a fleet of 180 new carriages which will deliver 20,000 more peak hour seats into Birmingham over the next two years,</p><p> </p><p>The East Midlands will benefit from our £1.5bn upgrade of the Midland Mainline, with faster peak time journeys to London from this December and a brand-new fleet of bi-mode trains entering service from 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 30/01/2020 15:32:37 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4802 label Biography information for Suzanne Webb

1169803

registered interest
date	09/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will meet with (a) the hon. Member for Lichfield and (b) officials from the West Midlands Rail Executive to discuss the re-opening of the existing Lichfield City to Derby via Burton on Trent freight line for use for passenger traffic.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	1679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>I understand that officials from Transport for the West Midlands have met with the Hon. Member and that they are undertaking a study to evaluate the business case for this proposal. As the Minister responsible for rail, I would be happy to meet with him and officials in due course to discuss the findings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 16/01/2020 15:49:03 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1166733

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of delays to train services in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	6186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department meets regularly with West Midlands Trains to discuss, amongst other issues, train performance. In addition, we have recently required the franchise to deliver a plan to improve train performance. We anticipate receiving this plan by the end of November and this will detail how performance will improve and return to the levels required under the Franchise Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 31/10/2019 11:13:40 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham