Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the criteria for the allocation of funding on infrastructure for Northern and Midland High Speed 2.

The 2015 Spending Review reconfirmed the Government’s commitment to the programme providing a long-term funding envelope of £55.7bn in 2015 prices. Of this £28.55bn was allocated to Phase Two. This allocation includes funding for infrastructure for the Northern and Midlands sections of High Speed 2. The funding has been allocated in order to deliver the benefits, including those for the North and Midlands, as set out in the Strategic, Economic and Financial cases for Phase Two, most recently published in July 2017.

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