| Heading: |
East West Rail Line: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1810687 |
| UIN: |
58256 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4630 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ben Lake
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| Asking Member handle: |
BenMLake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BenMLake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is her Department's policy that the classification of the East-West rail project as carrying 100% comparability factor for Wales is a publishing error in each Statement of funding policy, published betwee |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4621 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Darren Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
darrenpjones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@darrenpjones
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member handle: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
The UK Government is responsible for heavy rail infrastructure across England and Wales so spends money on this in Wales rather than funding the Welsh Government to do so through the Barnett formula. This approach applies to investment in heavy rail by th... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |