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Railways: Midlands

Commons · Question 68449 · Tabled 16 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 24 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Transport of 8 July 2025 on Road and Rail Projects, Official Report, columns 822-3, whether it is her policy that the full cost of the midla

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 24 Jul 2025

A sum of £123m has been allocated by the Government to deliver detailed designs of the first phase of MRH. The designs will produce a more accurate cost estimate, a delivery schedule and subsequently form the basis of a ‘Final Investment Decision’. This p...