Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 97122

Transport: Finance

Tabled: 4 December 2025

Answered: 11 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Steve Barclay

Conservative — North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide a list of all transport schemes given approval to progress following the Spending Review which had a lower benefit cost ratio score than the Ely Area Rail Capacity Enhancement.

Answer

Keir Mather

The Ely Area Capacity Enhancement (EACE) scheme was paused by the previous government in 2021, and no further funding was allocated to develop, update, or progress the EACE business case. As a result, there has been no ongoing work from which to produce a...

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