Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the oral contribution by the Minister of State for Transport, Official Report, column 448 and with reference to his statement that the 40 per cent reduction in Transport for the North’s core funding will not take place until the next financial year, whether Transport for the North has been allocated £10 million in financial year 2020-21.

I refer the Right Honourable Member to my oral contribution to the House, Official Report, column 447; Transport for the North received a core funding settlement from the Department of £7 million for the current financial year (2020/21) and £6 million for the next (2021/22).

I also refer the hon Member to the answer I gave on 22 March 2021, to Question UIN 170563 https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-03-17/170563/.