Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of railway track is located in each region of England and Wales.

Network Rail have informed me that there is over 20,000 miles of track in total in the UK; with Scotland having 2,800 track miles, and Wales having over 1,400 track miles

As a proportion by Government region, Network Rail has provided the following information:

It should be noted that railway track in each region is utilised to different intensities. For example in 2015/16 there were 537,369 thousand rail passenger journeys within the London region which was almost six times more journeys than within the North West region.