HL Deb 18 December 2002 vol 642 c107WA
Lord Berkeley

asked 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 Tradeston

The 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.