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1175469

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when communities will be able to apply for the remainder of the £500 million fund for the reopening of railway lines.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL1241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Transport is inviting MPs to work with local authorities and community groups to come forward with proposals to explore. He has set out how this should be done and officials are providing further guidance and assistance. He will consider the proposals received and expects to make a further announcement on development funding in the autumn this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/02/2020 12:20:19 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1175470

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make funds available for the construction of reopening railway lines, beyond the £500 million feasibility studies.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL1242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The £500m is expected to fund both feasibility studies and delivery of new stations and new services on lines reopened to passengers during this Parliament. The value and progress of these will be monitored and the funding will be kept under review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/02/2020 12:21:45 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1175473

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) miles of lines, and (2) stations, will be re-opened as part of their programme to reverse the Beeching era cuts to the rail network.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL1245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The volume of railway lines and stations that will be re-opened through the £500m investment being made during this Government will depend on the costs and value or money of qualifying schemes. The Secretary of State is inviting MPs to work with local authorities and community groups to come forward with proposals to explore.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/02/2020 12:22:48 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1175487

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 16 January (HL122), whether projects funded by the “£500m to start reopening lines closed following the Beeching report, reconnecting smaller towns, regenerating local economies and improving accessibility to jobs, homes and education” will have to go through (1) the Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline, and (2) the Governance of Railway Investment Projects, systems.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL1259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>We expect the Department for Transport’s Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline process and the Network Rail Governance of Railway Investment Projects process will be used to manage the development and delivery of re-opening schemes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/02/2020 12:21:20 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1172627

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on developing market-led proposals for rail infrastructure investment.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	6663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>We continue to welcome market led proposals and the Market Led Guidance remains live at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rail-market-led-proposals" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/rail-market-led-proposals</a>. Where proposals have been received we have engaged with backers and where appropriate supported their engagement with Network Rail and the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline process.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 27/01/2020 17:44:06 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1169266

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the fund for re-opening railway lines closed by the Beeching Cuts will be administered; how decisions will be made on which lines it will be used for; how that fund is intended to interact with the Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline system and Governance of Railway Investment Projects; and what over what period of time the funds will be (1) allocated and (2) spent.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>To help communities across the country, we have pledged £500m to start reopening lines closed following the Beeching report, reconnecting smaller towns, regenerating local economies and improving accessibility to jobs, homes and education.</p><p> </p><p>Further details will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/01/2020 11:29:56 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1148908

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government’s announcement of 10 October 2019 on an infrastructure revolution, what his timescale is for the (a) enhancements pipeline for Network Rail in Control Period 6 between 2019 and 2024 and (b) market led investment proposals for the rail industry.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline (RNEP) was published on 16<sup>th</sup> October 2019 and lists all schemes currently in the pipeline and can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rail-network-enhancements-pipeline-autumn-2019-update" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rail-network-enhancements-pipeline-autumn-2019-update</a></p><p> </p><p>A core principle of the RNEP is that the Government only ever commits to the next stage of development.</p><p>Timescales for the development of market-led proposals are determined by the pace at which promoters develop them as they are market-led. However, we continue to engage with the promoters of a number of proposals submitted to the department through the 2018 call for ideas.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 21/10/2019 16:02:02 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald