Department for Transport written question – answered at on 18 October 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent from the public purse on rail services per head of population in (a) Ellesmere Port & Neston constituency, (b) the North West, (c) the Northern Powerhouse area, (d) London and (e) England in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
Figures on public sector spend on railways per head of population are produced for England and the regions as part of the HM Treasury Country and Regional Analysis (CRA).
In 2014/15, the latest year for which data are available, public sector spend per head on railways was £93 in the North West, £353 in London and £113 in England.
Defining the Northern Powerhouse area as the three regions in the north of England (North West, North East and Yorkshire and the Humber), spend on railways per head was £88 in 2014/15.
Data on spend per head on railways is not available for Ellesmere Port and Neston.
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