Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of rail enhancements in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.

Rail enhancements are delivered through the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline, which has spent the following in each year in CP6 (including contributions to 3rd party schemes), from 2019 (figures shown in £m, nominal):

a) 2019/20: £1,475m

b) 2020/21: £1,477m

c) 2021/22: £1,685m

d) 2022/23: £1,840m