Railways: Wales

(asked on 17th July 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist Portrait
Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist
(Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they (1) allocated to, and (2) spent on, railways in Wales between 2010 and 2024 by fiscal period.

Answered by
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill Portrait
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2025

The table below shows the UK Government funded expenditure on operations, maintenance, renewal and enhancement of railways in Wales for each financial year, noting that we do not have data for the financial year 2010/2011.

Financial Year

11/12

12/13

13/14

14/15

15/16

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

£million

230

249

318

307

388

508

502

551

460

414

434

521

525

Spending on railways in Wales by the Welsh Government, including continuing subsidy for rail services operated by Transport for Wales is not included, nor is payment made by the Department in respect of services that Transport for Wales operates wholly within England.

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