Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mark Lazarowicz (Labour and Co-operative Party), on Tuesday, 9 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 17 members in total.

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EAST COAST MAIN LINE RAIL SERVICES

That this House notes the pending decision of the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) on the planned expansion of rail services on the East Coast Main Line between London, the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East of England and Scotland; recognises that there are competing applications for scarce track capacity on sections of the East Coast route; believes that the best use of any available capacity would be for the ORR to allocate it to the operator of the publicly-franchised Inter City East Coast service operating over the entire route, which delivers revenue to the Government for reinvestment in the railways; understands that the 25 new services that National Express East Coast wishes to run from December 2009 will deliver thousands of extra seats per day, create around 50 new jobs, reduce average journey times between London, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East of England and Scotland, and bring about new direct services between London, Lincoln, Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Harrogate, Bradford and other communities; and calls upon the ORR to find in favour of the National Express proposals.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

208 

Session

2008-09

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Lynne Jones

Ann Cryer

Jim Devine

Alan Simpson

Subjects

Railways

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk