Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 25 May 2021 to Question 2401 on Railways: Livestock, what estimate he has made of the cost to Network Rail of preventing livestock incursions onto the rail network in each of the last 5 years.
Network Rail do not hold specific data on the costs of preventing livestock intrusions onto the network. The costs have not been estimated in this manner because issues such as fencing to prevent incursion will generally not be related specifically to livestock, but to preventing incursion onto the rail network more widely. The funding for activities to safeguard the railway is provided for out of the maintenance and renewals budgets within each of Network Rail’s regions.