Ministers have been called on to reassess rail plans for the North of England after the Government admitted it has failed to carry out a levelling up assessment of the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP).
The IRP, which was published in November, saw the plans for a new railway across the North, Northern Powerhouse Rail, downgraded and the eastern leg of HS2 up to Yorkshire, scrapped.
The plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail had been developed for several years, on a cross-party basis, by political and business leaders across the North.
