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South West Main Line: Dawlish

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 18 June 2025UIN 59876

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21418 on South West Main Line: Dawlish, what criteria she used for the decision not to include funding for phase 5 of the South West Rail Resilience Program

Answered by Simon Lightwood

Following the Chancellors’s statement on 11 June we are now working to confirm our wider portfolio of rail enhancements, which will be published as part of the government’s commitment to set out its overall infrastructure pipeline.

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