Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reason is for the changes planned to High Level Output Statement resource DEL expenditure classified under Other Railways in 2015-16.

Forecasts were made at the time of the July 2012 High Level Output Statement of the likely overall net resource DEL impact of implementation of the strategy in each year. The forecasts against this budget line will change over time as a result of changes in revenue and cost forecasts and implementation timings and, as projects are delivered, transfers to other budget lines.