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Written Question
Railways: Wales
Friday 27th June 2025

Asked by: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much they spent on Welsh railways between 2014 and 2019, including control periods 4 and 5.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

The UK Government is responsible for rail infrastructure across England and Wales. Rail in Scotland is a devolved matter. From 2014/15 until 2019/20, a total of £2.716 billion was invested on rail infrastructure in Wales. This figure includes costs to maintain and operate the network (£1.889 billion) as well as costs to enhance the network (£0.827 billion).

The continuing subsidy for rail services operated by Transport for Wales (TfW) was made part of the UK Government Block Grant to Wales in c2007. It is not separately identifiable as the amount allocated to rail from the Block Grant was a devolved matter for Welsh Ministers. Separately, the Department made payments for services that TfW operated wholly within England of c£4 million per annum (i.e. c£20 million for 2014-2019).

Written Question
North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
Monday 12th May 2025

Asked by: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether any ministerial meetings have taken place on electrification of the North Wales Mainline.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

No specific ministerial meetings have taken place on electrification of the North Wales Mainline. Both the Secretary of State and the Rail Minister have met with the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Transport & North Wales in recent months to discuss our shared ambitions for the development of rail services in Wales that can unlock economic growth.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [HL]

"I thank noble Lords for tabling amendments and speaking so thoughtfully on such an important subject.

I assure noble Lords that we have considered, and will continue to consider, the potential impact of the Secretary of State directing a smaller airport to progress an ACP—airspace change proposal—when it may not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [HL]

"I acknowledge the noble Lord’s point. This argument is not all about efficiency. I will finish my points.

At this early stage, if the airport operator expressed concerns that it did not have sufficient funding to proceed with a particular ACP, we would expect the oversight team to work with …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [HL]

"I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his intervention. I think he was talking about aircraft slots in that instance, which is not the subject of this debate. Also, Newquay is not subject to the ACP in the same way as other airports; it is outside the master plan.

…..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2020
High Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)

"Noble Lords will have noticed that the clock is not working. I was keeping a record, and all noble Lords were going over the advisory speaking time of seven minutes. I urge noble Lords to keep their speeches as succinct as possible..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2020
High Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)

"We shall do our best, but we cannot do that from here. We are trying to sort it out...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill

"I hope that the noble Lord has come to the end of his comments...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill

"Perhaps I may remind the noble Lord that the advisory speaking time is seven minutes. We can be quite flexible, but not too flexible...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
High Speed Rail (West Midlands–Crewe) Bill

"The advisory speaking time is in deference to colleagues because we have a number of other issues to discuss later on this evening...."
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