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date	09/10/2017
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, whether he plans to review the decision to cancel the electrification of the entire Midland Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	106744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The upgrade to the Midland Main Line, which includes electrification to Kettering and Corby, will enable increased passenger capacity and reduced journey times, as well as introducing a brand new fleet of bi-mode intercity trains from 2022. This will deliver improved journeys sooner and is part of delivering the biggest upgrade of the Midland Main Line since it opened in 1870. We will only electrify lines where it delivers a genuine benefit to passengers.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/10/2017 15:32:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

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registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Midlands Trains: Passengers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made on the number of passengers using East Midlands train service (a) peak-time north-bound, (b) off-peak north-bound, (c) peak-time south-bound and (d) off-peak south-bound from Bedford in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	106746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>There are no published statistics on the annual number of passengers travelling on East Midlands train services from Bedford over the past 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>Passenger rail usage statistics for train operators are available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link: <a href="http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/12" target="_blank">http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/12</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of Station Usage gives annual totals for all passengers entering and exiting each station on Great Britain’s rail network, and is available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/10/2017 15:27:04 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin