Douglas Carswell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Carswell on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to ensure that the next East Anglia franchise provides more frequent train services to Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze.

Claire Perry

We have already set out the minimum levels of service in the invitation to tender for East Anglia and where bidders see there is an opportunity to offer more than those, they can do so. That tends to be based on whether there is a commercial case for improving services further.