Question follow-through · 37090

South Wales Main Line: Electrification

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent estimate she has made of the total cost of the electrification of the remainder of the South Wales mainline to be.

answeredWales Office

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Answering body: Wales Office
Tabled: 10 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 12 Mar 2025
Answer: 17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent estimate she has made of the total cost of the electrification of the remainder of the South Wales mainline to be.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
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17 Mar 2025
Answer corrected
This Government acknowledges that its predecessors have short-changed Wales for years on rail investment, including because of HS2. The South East Wales Transport Commission and North Wales Transport Commission provide the government with key recommendati...

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