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Public Transport: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department is providing for public transport projects in the North East.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
9 Jan 2025
Answer
9 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department is providing for public transport projects in the North East.

  2. 9 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    We announced a £200m uplift for City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements in 2025/26, in addition to the £310m and £563m already allocated to Tees Valley and North East Combined Authority respectively. We announced a further £31m for buses in the regi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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