PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Network Rail (21 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2015 to Question 6967, what funding has been allocated to each project for each year under the heading, Funding for projects in addition to the agreed Rail Investment Strategy, given in the Answer of 9 July 2015 to Question 5694.

Asked by:
Lilian Greenwood (Labour)

The projects in addition to the agreed Rail Investment Strategy are:

Project	Funding (m)
Ely-Soham double tracking	35.0
Syston – Stoke gauge enhancement	20.0
Sheffield Tram Train	48.0
New Stations Fund (5 stations)	19.7
Windermere electrification	16.0
Western flood resistance	26.0
Hull electrification study	2.5
Coventry – Nuneaton Phase 2	5.0
Wigan – Bolton electrification	37.0
Gospel Oak – Barking and London freight electrification	90.0
Gatwick station (second phase)	20.0
Chesterton Station	44.0
Access for All ‘top-up’	60.0

The project funding is not broken down by year as Network Rail was reclassified to the public sector, which means that project funding spend is triggered by the projects’ actual expenditure in each year.

There is a small variation between the total funding amounts in this table and the one sent earlier under the heading “Funding for projects in addition to the agreed Rail Investment Strategy”. This is because the table in question 5694 is a cash forecast year by year, whereas this table is the price set at the projects’ earlier approval dates.

Answered by:
Claire Perry (Conservative)
7 September 2015