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Written Question
Railways: Dawlish
Thursday 1st December 2016

Asked by: Anne Marie Morris (Conservative - Newton Abbot)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the £50 million investment in rail resilience projects referred to in paragraph 3.25 of the Autumn Statement 2016 is intended for the Dawlish Rail Resilience Project.

Answered by Paul Maynard

The £10m of investment in Dawlish is 20% of the £50m rail resilience project investment announced in the Autumn Statement 2016. This funding will allow Network Rail’s development work to continue on the three highest priority Devon coastal sites identified in the geo-technical study which Network Rail published on 17 November. This work will include the development of an application for the necessary planning consents for the work on the cliffs along the coast to the immediate north-east of Teignmouth.

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Great Western Railway Routes

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Great Western Railway Routes

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