Speeches

Jonathan Reynolds – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-12-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Rail Delivery Group received from the public purse in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (v) 2015.

Claire Perry

The information requested is in the table below.

Year

Amount

Source

2011-12

N/A

2012-13

N/A

2013-14

N/A

2014-15

£1,189,417 £151,987

Network Rail[1] Directly Operated Railways[2]

2015-16 (1 April 2015 to date)

£1,832,625[3]

Network Rail

[1] Network Rail was reclassified as a public body by the Office for National Statistics on 1 September 2014. The figure shown is Network Rail’s contribution to the Rail Delivery Group from September 2014 – March 2015.

[2] Rail Delivery Group charged Directly Operated Railways for the first time in 2014-15.

[3] The figure shown is based on a full year contribution of £2,443,500.