Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether the Government plans to release the funding for the Yorkgate Interchange project.

In the Secretary of State’s Ministerial Statement of 8 March 2018, she set out resource and capital allocations for Northern Ireland Departments in 2018/19. These allocations included £410m in financial support arising from the financial Annex to the Confidence and Supply Agreement including a £200m boost in capital expenditure to fund key infrastructure projects, such as the York Street Interchange.