Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the amount that was spent by Network Rail on (a) research and development and (b) rail innovation in each year since 2019.

Network Rail has a dedicated research and development portfolio, to improve infrastructure efficiency and performance. In Control Period 6 (2018/19 to 2023/24), this was allocated £245m in funding.

Network Rail was also allocated a Performance Innovation Fund of £40m to support the testing and implementation of industry proposals to improve train punctuality over this Control Period.