Speeches

Paula Sherriff – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paula Sherriff on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 3 February 2016 to Question 24232 and 11 January 2016 to Question 20570 on British Transport Police: finance, how much income from (a) Transport for London, (b) train operating companies, (c) Network Rail and (d) other funding sources is included in the budget for 2016-17; and how much income by funding source (i) is in the budget for and (ii) has been received in 2015-16.

Claire Perry

The following table sets out the British Transport Police’s income by funding source in 2015-16:

2015-16

£000s

Core funding (including train operators and Network Rail)

209,262

Transport for London

63,883

Non-core funding

11,559

Other income

13,334

Total

298,038

The split of income between the train operators and Network Rail is commercially sensitive information.

Although the total budget for 2016-17 is £295.1 million, the individual components are still to be determined.