Question follow-through · 905592
East Coast Main Line: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve rail services on the East Coast Main Line.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve rail services on the East Coast Main Line.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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11 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has invested £4bn in route-wide upgrades – including new trains and improvements to platforms, tracks, signals and junctions. This will deliver journey time, reliability and capacity improvements, with more than 60,000 extra seats across th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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