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Railways: Electrification

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 148334, tabled on 28 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of the rail network that will be electrified during Control Period 6, 2019-24, and Control Period 7, 2024-29.

Answered on

4 April 2022

In Control Period 6, we have already completed nearly 270 track miles of electrification in England and Wales that are now open to the public.

For Control Period 7, rail enhancement budgets have not yet been set.