Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how Network Rail’s £100 million research and development budget for Control Period 5 was spent in each year between 2014 and 2018; and if he will publish that spending alongside the promised delivery outcomes in each of those years.

In CP5 Network Rail had a strategic research & development fund of £100m. This was split between the Network Rail Research & Development programme (£50m) and the Rail Safety and Standards Board Innovation Programme (£50m). Network Rail’s funding for Research & Development was reduced to £32m as part of the Hendy funding review

Spend broken down by each year of CP5:

Year 1: £3.2m

Year 2: £5.3m

Year 3: £5.5m

Year 4: £7.1m

Year 5: £10.5m