Lord Berkeleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How much public sector money has been allocated in each of the past five years to (a) rail freight grants and (b) rail network enhancements. [HL566]
§ Lord Macdonald of TradestonThe table below shows, for each of the five years from 1997–98 to 2001–02, the amount of public expenditure on rail freight grants.
£ mullion cash prices 1997–98 29.5 1998–99 28.7 1999–00 27.5 2000–01 34.8 2001–02 60.2 No public sector money was allocated for rail network enhancements in any of the four years from 1997–98 to 2000–01. In 2001–02 there was £351 million capital expenditure on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and £59.2 million of expenditure on project development, which includes feasibility and design and development work on infrastructure projects.