Question follow-through · 107929
Transport: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to apply the findings of the 2025 Green Book Review to help ensure that transport schemes in rural areas like Cornwall receive adequate funding.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to apply the findings of the 2025 Green Book Review to help ensure that transport schemes in rural areas like Cornwall receive adequate funding.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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30 Jan 2026
Answer published
The government is changing the Green Book and how it is used to make sure that every region is given a fair hearing when it comes to investment. That is why a shorter, more streamlined version of the Green Book will be published soon.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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