Railways: Expenditure
(asked on 20th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish his Department's expenditure on Network Rail operations in England in each of the last five years.
Network Rail’s expenditure for England in the past five years (excluding interest, tax and centrally managed costs) was as follows shown in £m:
| 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 |
Operating Costs | 3,082 | 3,053 | 2,595 | 2,274 | 2,041 |
Traction electricity, Industry costs and rates | 769 | 758 | 710 | 667 | 577 |
Renewals | 3,244 | 3,234 | 2,410 | 2,547 | 1,875 |
Enhancements | 1,616 | 1,443 | 1,504 | 2,450 | 2,774 |
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Total | 8,711 | 8,489 | 7,220 | 7,938 | 7,267 |
By way of context, 93% of rail journeys in Great Britain started or ended in England over the 5-year period covered above.