Public Expenditure: Wales

(asked on 9th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Barnett consequential the Welsh Government will receive from the £5.4 billion allocated to the Transpennine Route Upgrade in the Integrated Rail Plan.


Answered by
Simon Clarke Portrait
Simon Clarke
This question was answered on 15th December 2021

The UK Government is responsible for much of the rail infrastructure in Wales, and therefore spends money on this infrastructure rather than funding the Welsh Government to do so.

In line with this responsibility, the UK Government is currently delivering an ambitious programme to upgrade Welsh railways, including through the electrification of the Severn Tunnel and building a new station at Bow Street.

The Barnett formula is applied at fiscal events when departmental budgets are set rather than being applied when departments announce how they are spending their budgets. At the recent 2021 Spending Review the UK Government provided the Welsh Government with more than £18 billion on average each year over the spending review period. The Welsh Government will determine how to spend this on its devolved responsibilities.

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