Railways: Expenditure
(asked on 16th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much Government funding has been allocated to rail capital investment projects in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in each of the last 10 years.
Government capital expenditure on rail from 2006-07 to 2015-16 for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is shown in the tables below.
Table 1. Government capital expenditure on rail by country
Figures are in £000’s
| England | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland | UK |
2006-07 | 4,509,356 | 612,948 | 113,618 | 1,579 | 5,237,501 |
2007-08 | 4,521,593 | 674,355 | 95,782 | 27,372 | 5,319,102 |
2008-09 | 5,353,780 | 502,012 | 148,576 | 39,050 | 6,043,418 |
2009-10 | 4,893,167 | 530,574 | 195,917 | 35,722 | 5,655,379 |
2010-11 | 4,850,424 | 444,991 | 185,986 | -1,400 | 5,480,001 |
2011-121 | 5,865,380 | 461,923 | 209,568 | 92,066 | 6,628,937 |
2012-13 | 6,165,214 | 445,936 | 221,883 | 41,106 | 6,874,139 |
2013-14 | 6,275,501 | 453,321 | 209,579 | 16,228 | 6,954,629 |
2014-15 | 7,191,562 | 584,511 | 238,269 | 26,701 | 8,041,043 |
2015-162 | 10,154,191 | 199,705 | 320,379 | 39,422 | 10,713,697 |
Notes:
1. Local Government capital expenditure (made up mostly of Crossrail Ltd.) was introduced into the statistics from 2011-12, which caused a substantial increase in the overall spending level.
2. The step change in capital spending between 2014-15 and 2015-16 is mainly due to a change in the reporting of Network Rail finances following its reclassification as a public body. The allocation of Network Rail expenditure has also changed following its reclassification as a public body, resulting in a series break in 2015-16. As a result, expenditure by country in 2015-16 is not directly comparable with previous years.
Table 2. Government capital expenditure on rail by country;
2015-16 prices
Figures are in £000’s
| England | Scotland | Wales | Northern Ireland | UK |
2006-07 | 5,253,001 | 714,030 | 132,355 | 1,840 | 6,101,225 |
2007-08 | 5,142,734 | 766,992 | 108,940 | 31,132 | 6,049,799 |
2008-09 | 5,928,161 | 555,870 | 164,516 | 43,239 | 6,691,787 |
2009-10 | 5,344,582 | 579,522 | 213,991 | 39,018 | 6,177,112 |
2010-11 | 5,202,742 | 477,314 | 199,495 | -1,502 | 5,878,049 |
2011-121 | 6,205,251 | 488,689 | 221,711 | 97,401 | 7,013,053 |
2012-13 | 6,388,318 | 462,073 | 229,912 | 42,594 | 7,122,897 |
2013-14 | 6,397,092 | 462,104 | 213,640 | 16,542 | 7,089,379 |
2014-15 | 7,223,269 | 587,088 | 239,319 | 26,819 | 8,076,495 |
2015-162 | 10,154,191 | 199,705 | 320,379 | 39,422 | 10,713,697 |
Real terms figures are the nominal figures adjusted to 2015-16 prices using GDP deflators from the Office for National Statistics (released 30 September 2016).
Notes:
1. Local Government capital expenditure (made up mostly of Crossrail Ltd.) was introduced into the statistics from 2011-12, which caused a substantial increase in the overall spending level.
2. The step change in capital spending between 2014-15 and 2015-16 is mainly due to a change in the reporting of Network Rail finances following its reclassification as a public body. The allocation of Network Rail expenditure has also changed following its reclassification as a public body, resulting in a series break in 2015-16. As a result, expenditure by country in 2015-16 is not directly comparable with previous years.