Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide details of the rail electrification projects that his Department plans to start in each of the next three years.
In Decarbonising Transport: a Better, Cleaner Britain, we’ve committed to delivering an ‘ambitious, sustainable, and cost-effective programme of electrification, guided by the Network Rail-led Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy’, to help us deliver a net zero railway by 2050. To ensure this programme is deliverable, affordable, and achieves value for money, we will continue to develop new schemes individually and carefully through the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline process in the usual way, such as the recently announced £78m to electrify the route between Wigan North Western and Bolton, which is on track and targeted for completion in 2024.