Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 105895

National Highways and Network Rail: Finance

Tabled: 14 January 2026

Answered: 19 January 2026

Named Day

Question

Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the up-front technology and systems investment costs required for Network Rail and National Highways to deliver the efficiency gains assumed in the regulated settlements

Answer

Simon Lightwood

Technology and systems investments are integral to delivering efficiencies within Network Rail’s plan for Control Period 7. Significant investments have been made in specific technology and systems programmes, for example £930 million on Digital Signallin...

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