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Written Question
Transport: Finance
Thursday 11th December 2025

Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide a list of all transport schemes given approval to progress following the Spending Review which had a lower benefit cost ratio score than the Ely Area Rail Capacity Enhancement.

Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Ely Area Capacity Enhancement (EACE) scheme was paused by the previous government in 2021, and no further funding was allocated to develop, update, or progress the EACE business case. As a result, there has been no ongoing work from which to produce a current or up-to-date benefit–cost ratio, meaning there is no basis upon which to provide the comparisons requested.

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