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.

answeredTreasury

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 26 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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