Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to announce another competition for the Restoring Railway Fund; and if so, when.

Since being announced in January 2020 the Restoring Your Railway Fund has developed an ambitious portfolio of potential restoration schemes to reconnect smaller communities across England and Wales. The third round of the Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund stopped accepting new bids on 5 March 2021. This was the final round of the Ideas Fund for the foreseeable future. We are now focussed on realising the benefits of those schemes in order to regenerate local economies and improve access to jobs, homes and education.