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1697349

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for the upgrading of Haughley and Ely rail junctions.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	902088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The recently announced Network North programme of investment included confirmation of government’s support for the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement (EACE) programme and the substantial benefits this will bring, including a doubling of passenger services on the Ely to Kings Lynn and Ipswich to Peterborough routes together with additional freight paths into the Port of Felixstowe.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail have developed the scheme to Outline Business Case stage; next steps will involve further investment case development and delivery planning.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 21/03/2024 14:53:17 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock

1681667

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his planned timetable is for the reallocation of HS2 funding to Network Rail for upgrading (a) Haughley and (b) Ely junctions.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	9298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister's Network North announcement confirmed government support for the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement and upgrades to Haughley Junction. My officials have been engaging with their counterparts at Network Rail to consider next steps in progressing these important schemes and an update on next steps will be provided in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman grouped question UIN 9299 9300 question first answered 16/01/2024 11:13:02 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1681669

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail on upgrading (a) Haughley and (b) Ely junctions.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	9299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister's Network North announcement confirmed government support for the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement and upgrades to Haughley Junction. My officials have been engaging with their counterparts at Network Rail to consider next steps in progressing these important schemes and an update on next steps will be provided in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman grouped question UIN 9298 9300 question first answered 16/01/2024 11:13:02 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1664144

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits to passenger services in Ipswich of the upgrade of (a) Ely Junction and (b) Haughley Junction.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	201997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>The Ely Area Capacity Enhancements (EACE) scheme would create capacity to increase trains through the Ely ‘bottle neck’ from 6.5 per hour to 10 trains per hour, doubling passenger services on the Ely-King’s Lynn and Ipswich-Peterborough routes. We anticipate that the EACE scheme will take 98,000 lorry journeys off roads every year, improving road safety and reducing road congestion.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 18/10/2023 12:58:21 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1639227

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact on the UK economy of the Ely area capacity enhancement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	186137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>Economic appraisals of the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement Scheme have been undertaken by Network Rail as part of the Outline Business Case developed for the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 25/05/2023 08:03:19 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1604412

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to take steps to seek private investment to help fund improvements at (a) Ely and (b) Haughley rail junctions.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	166172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>We are carefully reviewing the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline for England and Wales (including the potential for alternative fund contributions), following the Autumn Statement. We remain committed to publishing an update on RNEP and this will confirm the status of the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement and Haughley Junction upgrade project.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 20/03/2023 16:59:55 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1604413

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to provide funding for improvements at (a) Ely and (b) Haughley rail junctions.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	166173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>We are carefully reviewing the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline for England and Wales, following the Autumn Statement. We remain committed to publishing an update on RNEP and this will confirm the status of the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement and Haughley Junction upgrade project.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 20/03/2023 17:02:27 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1490057

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the benefit cost ratio was of the recommended option submitted by Network Rail in its outline business case for the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement under the Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	38869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>An update on the scheme will be provided in an updated Rail Network Enhancements Portfolio (RNEP) in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/07/2022 09:02:45 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

533625

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	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce the award of the next franchise for passenger services on the Greater Anglia line.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	42137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The successful bidder for the East Anglia franchise will help us realise our ambitious plans for East Anglia’s rail network. We have been clear that as a minimum they must provide a modern service with state of the art trains, and also introduce at least two 90-minute services each way between London and Norwich. In addition they must invest heavily in improving stations.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to consider the bids and will announce the new operator in due course.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/07/2016 07:37:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

528144

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 7 of the East Anglia franchise Invitation to Tender, published on 17 September 2015, what weighting his Department has ascribed to (a) social characteristics and (b) other factors used to determine the most economically advantageous tender for (i) that franchise and (ii) proposals for new rolling stock orders by bidders for that franchise.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	41049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>As you have indicated the winning bid will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender as set out in section 7 of the Invitation to Tender (ITT). This is determined through a combination of ‘price’ and weighted quality points awarded as part of the Department’s evaluation of initiatives proposed by a bidder to meet or exceed the Department’s requirements set out in each delivery plan at section 5 of the East Anglia ITT.</p><p> </p><p>It is in the delivery plans themselves that references to social characteristics are included. In the main they appear in the Stations, Customer Experience and Leadership delivery plans.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of Rolling Stock, as a minimum, the Department has required that bidders propose either new rolling stock or non-new build rolling stock. If non-new build rolling stock, passengers will perceive the overall design, internal ambience, condition and facilities, and the external condition, as being modern, comfortable and comparable to that of new or nearly new rolling stock.</p><p> </p><p>This link takes you to the full ITT should you require it: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/461470/east-anglia-invitation-to-tender.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/461470/east-anglia-invitation-to-tender.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/06/2016 09:26:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood