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East West Rail Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date the decision was taken to re-classify East-West Rail as an England and Wales project.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
21 Jul 2025
Answer
24 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date the decision was taken to re-classify East-West Rail as an England and Wales project.

  2. 21 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As rail infrastructure projects have not been devolved to Wales the categorisation of these projects is in line with wider devolution policy managed by Treasury. Every Government funded rail project in Wales or England are always categorised as England an...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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