Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 83621

Transport: Isle of Wight

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 28 October 2025

Question

Richard Quigley

LabourIsle of Wight West

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the availability of funding for a fixed-link viability study to the Isle of Wight.

Answer

Keir Mather
The Department for Transport has not made an assessment of the availability of funding for a fixed-link viability study to the Isle of Wight. We believe that decisions on transport interventions for a local community are best made at local level and it wo...

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