Railways: Expenditure

(asked on 3rd April 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42342 on Railways: Public Expenditure, if her Department will make the calculations for each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Darren Jones Portrait
Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 8th April 2025

It is possible to reproduce English regional railway expenditure excluding HS2 for the last five years using the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) dataset. The table below shows the impact for the most recent CRA publication from November 2024:

Railway spending for English regions in £s per capita, excluding HS2

ITL Region

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

North East

118

224

188

239

255

North West

171

222

206

203

202

Yorkshire and the Humber

124

239

197

196

214

East Midlands

102

197

160

156

159

West Midlands

160

238

226

216

221

East of England

215

423

342

308

325

London

528

687

633

683

665

South East

235

433

333

301

299

South West

142

222

165

149

168

England

226

353

301

298

302

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