Speeches

Jonathan Reynolds – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Reynolds on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much income from passengers was earned by the Isle of Wight Island Line in each of the last five years.

Claire Perry

We do not have the running costs of the Isle of Wight Island Line in each category of expenditure in each of the last three years. What we do have are the figures for 2014/15 as supplied by SSWT:

Costs

£m

Staff costs

2.093

Station Lease costs

1.298

Depot Track Renewals, Maintenance, Materials

0.66

Track access and Electric Traction

0.123

Other

0.443

Total Costs

4.617

SSWT have informed us that the Island Line generated the following income in each of the last five years:

2010/11 = £0.9m

2011/12 = £1.0m

2012/13 = £1.0m

2013/14 = £0.9m

2014/15 = £0.9m