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	registered interest
	date	10/01/2024
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Gower on 20 December 2023 (HL1202), what specific action they have taken to make additional rolling stock available to the train operator, and whether actual or potential consequent loss of revenue is considered when such decisions are made.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL1398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>Cross Country trains are continuing discussions with the rolling stock market and it is hoped that confirmation of its future fleet will be made public in due course. In assessing the Business Case for additional train fleet, actual or potential loss of revenue is one of the factors that are considered in making such decisions.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 24/01/2024 16:32:33 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1678278

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2023
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they are having with the operator to address the shortage of accommodation on railway services between the Thames Valley and the North, including by making some more of the rolling stock currently in store available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL1202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Officials meet regularly with train operators. Under the new National Rail Contract that commenced in October, additional carriages are due to be added to the CrossCountry train fleet in the next few years, as they become available in the rolling stock market. It is for operators to determine how best to match capacity to expected passenger demand on individual services making the most efficient use of the train fleet available to them.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 20/12/2023 15:40:52 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1191474

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to asking Network Rail to convene a meeting with an independent chairman with wide operating experience to identify ways of improving performance in railway movements in the North of England, particularly in relation to the bottleneck between Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations, without major infrastructure investment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL3654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2020 answer text <p>The Department recognises the importance of improving the performance of rail services around Manchester and last year Richard George, a railway industry leader with wide operating experience, looked at this subject. Since January, his work has been taken forward to be developed in detail by a Task Force co-ordinated by Network Rail and involving train operators, Transport for the North and other stakeholders. This Task Force is working up options for improving performance through timetable changes without infrastructure investment, as well as considering the appropriate infrastructure investment in the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/05/2020 15:07:49 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1130597

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the reliability and punctuality of train services between Manchester and Leeds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL16141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport and Transport for the North appointed Richard George, Former Head of Transport at the London 2012 Olympic Games, to work with the Industry and Stakeholders to establish underlying performance issues and to make recommendations. The Industry has introduced changes to their timetables and train plans to improve timetable resilience and improve service performance. Since the May 2019 service change date, performance has improved.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 17/06/2019 16:12:02 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw