Transport for the North: Finance

(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has provided to Transport for the North in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th March 2021

TfN have received £10m in core funding for the previous two financial years. In December 2020, TfN’s core budget for this financial year (20/21) was reduced to £7 million, in part due to TfN’s underspend this financial year and the maintenance of large reserves.

TfN have had access to £104 million of the £147m Northern Powerhouse Rail budget since FY18/19, broken down as follows: 2018/19 - £15 million; 2019/20 - £30 million; 2020/21 - £59 million.

TfN was allocated up to £150m at the 2015 Spending Review to support its Integrated and Smart Travel programme, with this multi-year funding allocation expiring at the end of the current financial year. TfN utilised around £24 million in the past five years to enable the roll-out of smart ticketing across the North.

Finally, TfN receive a grant from the Department for Transport as a contribution to funding the Rail North Partnership team which manages the Northern and TransPennine Express franchises on behalf of the Department for Transport and Transport for the North. For the last three years these amounts are 2018/19 - £388k, 2019/20 - £582k, 2020/21 - £680k.

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