Cultural Heritage: Transport
(asked on 12th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether public grants to heritage railways and tramways are permitted under state aid rules where they fall within the English Aid for Cultural and Heritage Conservation State Aid Scheme.
This question was answered on 25th September 2017
Public grants to heritage railways may be permitted under state aid rules provided they meet the eligibility and other criteria set out in Chapter 1 and Articles 53 and 54 of the General Block Exemption Regulation 651/2014. It was under this legislation that the English Aid for Cultural and Heritage Conservation State Aid scheme was notified to the European Commission.