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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"20. What steps she is taking to help improve local bus services. ..."
Sam Rushworth - View Speech

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I welcome the new powers relating to buses, and the new funding for them that the Government are giving, but the problem is that what this Labour Government are giving, our Reform local authority is taking. It has announced plans to cancel the 35A out of Coundon, and the 104, …..."
Sam Rushworth - View Speech

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Written Question
Restoring Your Railway Fund: Weardale Line
Monday 9th September 2024

Asked by: Sam Rushworth (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the decision was taken not to grant Restore Your Railway funding to the Weardale Line; and for what reason that decision was taken.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Aside from Restoring Your Railway (RYR) projects currently at the delivery stage or in construction, all remaining RYR-originated projects, including the Darlington to Weardale line, are now being considered as part of preparations for the Spending Review. Ministers have been clear that not all projects will be able to proceed to delivery due to the challenging financial situation facing the Department.