Question follow-through · 83477
Transport: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to allocate funding to support transport (a) infrastructure and (b) services in West Dorset constituency in the Autumn Budget 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to allocate funding to support transport (a) infrastructure and (b) services in West Dorset constituency in the Autumn Budget 2025.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
This government recognises the challenges people face when it comes to transport provision in regions which are predominantly rural, like West Dorset. That is why we are providing £2.2 billion of Local Transport Grant capital funding over 4 years to local...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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