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Asked by Mr Clive BettsLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 23 July 2025UIN 67817

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of tram track have opened in (a) Manchester, (b) Birmingham, (c) Nottingham and (d) Sheffield in the last ten years.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

Annual figures for light rail and tram system kilometres are published on the Gov.uk website and can be found in table LRT0203 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/light-rail-and-tram-statistics-lrt

This data shows the annual length of light rail, tram and underground system routes open for passenger traffic in Great Britain from 1996 onwards.

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