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South West Main Line: Dawlish

Asked by Steve DarlingLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 20 June 2025UIN 60537

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the South West Rail Resilience Programme Phase 5 at Dawlish during the Spending Review 2025.

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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