Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of the total amount of funding dedicated to Leicester within the Integrated Rail Plan is new funding.
Leicester will benefit from the £12.8 billion investment in the HS2 East Core Network which includes a new high-speed line from West Midlands to the East Midlands, Midland Main Line electrification, and upgrades to the East Coast Main Line. This investment is all newly committed funding, and none of it is reallocated from other departments.