Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of new railway track were laid in each region of England and Wales in each year since 2010.

The Office of Rail and Road publish railway infrastructure statistics, which contain the total length of track in Great Britain (including Scotland) by year.

This information is available here: http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/c35e0c28-324f-4168-81b9-be197963f251

This information is not available by region.

The year-on-year change in track length is the net change of new track added minus length of track closed. Therefore, a year-on-year increase does not necessarily equal the total length of new track added.

Network Rail manage the infrastructure, but they geographically organise the network by ‘Routes’ rather than by region, therefore this information is not available by region.

Track Miles of the rail network in Great Britain. Source: ORR

*Provisional.