Railways: Expenditure
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2025 to Question 42342 on Railways: Public Expenditure, if her Department will make the calculations for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Darren Jones
It is possible to reproduce English regional railway expenditure excluding HS2 for the last five years using the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) dataset. The table below shows the impact for the most recent CRA publication from November 2024:
Railway spending for English regions in £s per capita, excluding HS2 | |||||
ITL Region | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
North East | 118 | 224 | 188 | 239 | 255 |
North West | 171 | 222 | 206 | 203 | 202 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 124 | 239 | 197 | 196 | 214 |
East Midlands | 102 | 197 | 160 | 156 | 159 |
West Midlands | 160 | 238 | 226 | 216 | 221 |
East of England | 215 | 423 | 342 | 308 | 325 |
London | 528 | 687 | 633 | 683 | 665 |
South East | 235 | 433 | 333 | 301 | 299 |
South West | 142 | 222 | 165 | 149 | 168 |
England | 226 | 353 | 301 | 298 | 302 |
Verbatim has judged this answer against the question that was actually asked — answered, partly answered, or evaded. Sign in to see the verdict →