High Speed 2 Railway Line: North East

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits of High Speed Two for Wearside; and what funding his Department plans to allocate for rail in Wearside.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

HS2 presents a significant opportunity for businesses of all sizes across Wearside, and the North East, with HS2 Ltd’s supply chain consisting of up to 400,000 contract opportunities.

HS2 has a very extensive supply chain and can therefore only monitor critical contracts as a result. 24 suppliers on critical contracts across the North East have won work on HS2, 2 of which are based in Wearside. The contracts for the suppliers in Wearside have been for services including, but not limited to, Land Surveying and Engineering services. £12bn worth of supply chain contract opportunities are available to businesses across the United Kingdom in the coming months and years.

The Department for Transport is currently considering the recent Restore Your Railway Ideas Fund Round 3 bid, co-sponsored by the Hon Member, for reinstatement of local passenger services on the Leamside line. We are also contributing, through the Transforming Cities Fund allocation for the North East, to the redevelopment of Sunderland station

Subject to the creation of appropriate governance arrangements to agree and deliver funding, the North East will have access to a share of the £4.2 billion intracity transport fund over the next five years from 2022/23

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