Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the amount spent on the rail network to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Measures Network Rail are taking out of their current budget include: :

• Drainage and earthwork asset renewals and targeted investment in other assets such as track, structures, overhead lines, etc.
• Standalone climate change resilience projects.
• Implementation of the climate change adaptation elements of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy perspective across Network Rail central and regional functions. This includes development of climate change risk assessments, strategy and planning, research and analysis to better understand the impact of climate change on the railway and integrate management of the risks into business as usual.