Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the South West Rail Resilience Programme Phase 5 at Dawlish during the Spending Review 2025.

Following the Chancellors’s statement on 11 June we are now working to confirm our wider portfolio of rail enhancements, which will be published as part of the Government’s commitment to set out its overall infrastructure pipeline.