Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the proposed reduction in Network Rail’s enhancement budget announced in the Spending Review 2020 on 25 November 2020, which projects will be affected by this reduction; and for each such project, what assessment they have made of the effects that the reduction will have on (1) project budgets, (2) completion dates, and (3) passenger and freight traffic.

Network Rail’s operations, maintenance and renewals budgets have not been changed as a result of Spending Review 2020. Workbanks will continue to be based on the five-year regulatory funding settlement for 2019-2024.

The Spending Review confirmed that the Government will continue to support the railway, investing in ambitious improvements to modernise our railway.

In terms of impacts on individual schemes, it remains the case that no schemes have been cancelled nor formal investment decisions taken as a result of the Spending Review.