Question follow-through · 27662
Railway Stations: Lifts
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on railway station lift maintenance in (a) 2014 and (b) 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on railway station lift maintenance in (a) 2014 and (b) 2024.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2025
Answer published
Network Rail reported that in 2013/14 it spent £4.2 million maintaining 1127 lift assets, compared to £8.3 million in 2023/24 to maintain 1516 lift assets.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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