Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 59569

Railways: East of England

Tabled: 12 June 2025
Answered: 18 June 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of rail infrastructure schemes in the East of England on regional economic growth.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Department has not made a combined assessment of regional economic growth of all projects relating to the East of England region. The Department undertakes appraisal of business cases on a project-by-project basis. This appraisal attempts to quantity ...

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