Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the funding made available to improve rail resilience to flooding has been (a) allocated to Network Rail and (b) spent to date.

An additional £26 million was provided to Network Rail in March 2014 to support a three year programme of investment in flooding resilience measures on the Western Route, for completion in 2017. Network Rail is operationally independent and it is for them to plan this work in the way they believe is most effective. They have informed us that so far, £2.6 million of that funding has been spent.