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 fund managed by Chris Gibb to achieve improvements to rail services has been spent to date.

This money comes from Network Rail’s existing budget and work has been carried out on replacing worn tracks, hiring extra staff, improving train dispatch times, providing more Network Rail rapid response teams, accelerating track maintenance programmes, additional signal supervisors, improving bridge strike prevention, investment to speed up and identify the causes of delay and improve responses to delays, and improvements in depot flows.