Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Crossrail International spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Richard Holden
Nothing.
Correspondence Sep. 11 2023
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Correspondence from Howard Smith, Director, Elizabeth Line, re Crossrail progress update: Full peak timetable
Correspondence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Crossrail Lessons Learned The Crossrail report was published on 18th March and we are reviewing the lessons
Asked by: Lord Bradshaw (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Gower on 6 March (HL2701), whether they have received any representations from Chiltern Railways about ending the direct access services between Northolt Junction and Paddington.
Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
There are no plans to reinstate direct access services from Northolt Junction to Paddington.
Chiltern Railways used to run a twice-daily service from Northolt Junction (i.e. South Ruislip Station) to London Paddington. In December 2018, this route was cancelled with the closure of the Acton to Northolt line to enable High Speed 2 works. Chiltern Railways made representations to alternatively run to West Ealing via the Greenford branch line, however this was not possible due to Crossrail capacity constraints.
Apr. 02 2008
Source Page: Table showing the value and the nature of work undertaken by KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young and Deloitte for the DFT and its agencies between 1 March 2007 and 29 February 2008. 2 p.Found: 1876536.0PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERSNATURE OF WORKSPEND IN PERIODVarious Projects, including Bus Regulation advice, tax advice for Crossrail
Mentions:
1: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) billion overspend in the Shared Services network replacement, a very modest £3 billion overspend in Crossrail - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) yet more future infrastructure delays and overspend.Compared with nuclear and HS2, the overspend on Crossrail - Speech Link
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the level of funding his Department will provide to the rail industry in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The Central Government Supply Estimates 2023-24, presented to the House of Commons and published on 27 February 2024 (see link below), details the funding provided to the Department for Transport across a large number of different areas. The value associated with all rail and rail related lines is £33.029 billion, across both Departmental Expenditure Limit and Annually Managed Expenditure. More than half of the total value is associated with Network Rail, with other areas including but not limited to High Speed 2, Crossrail and support for passenger rail services. The numbers in the Central Government Supply Estimates take account of technical accounting adjustments and are not necessarily reflective of cash that will be required.
Aug. 05 2008
Source Page: List of Department for Transport reviews and consultations since June 2007.Found: from all qualifying local planning authorities on the structure and category of fees to be set by the Crossrail
Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) Rail.Since that time, the rail system across the north of England has had three names: it has been HS3, Crossrail - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) On the points about Crossrail, more money will be invested by this Government or the UK taxpayer on the - Speech Link
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the budget for rail enhancements in England and Wales between 2024 and 2029 is.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The rail enhancement budget has been separated from the overall Network Rail Operations Maintenance and Renewals budget, known as the Statement of Funds Available, since 2018. The government published its approach to rail enhancements across England and Wales in the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline[1] (RNEP) in 2018.
Since Spending Review 2021 we have spent around £2bn a year on rail enhancements on the conventional network. Major projects, including HS2, Crossrail and East West Rail, are funded separately. As previously, the RNEP budget beyond the current Spending Review period (ending in 24/25) will be set at future fiscal events.
[1] Rail network enhancements pipeline - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)