Railways: Expenditure
(asked on 16th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, (a) how much of and (b) on what the £20 million rail fund for new stations announced on 1 September 2016 has been spent.
This question was answered on 21st November 2016
The second round of the New Stations Fund was launched on 26 August 2016. The deadline for bidders for this round of up to £20 million funding is 25 November 2016. Applications for funding have been invited from industry and local authority promoters and will be evaluated independently against the qualifying and assessment criteria. We hope to announce the successful projects by April 2017 and work will need to be completed by 31 March 2020.