Question follow-through · 83621
Transport: Isle of Wight
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the availability of funding for a fixed-link viability study to the Isle of Wight.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Ferries: Isle of Wight · 17 Mar 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the availability of funding for a fixed-link viability study to the Isle of Wight.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport has not made an assessment of the availability of funding for a fixed-link viability study to the Isle of Wight. We believe that decisions on transport interventions for a local community are best made at local level and it wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Ferries: Isle of Wight
17 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of obtaining oversight of Isle of Wight ferry services.