Great Western Main Line

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 22 April 2025.

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Photo of Seamus Logan Seamus Logan Scottish National Party, Aberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department's original budget for the Great Western Railway modernisation project was; how much her Department has spent since that project started; and what the estimated final cost is in (a) real and (b) current terms.

Photo of Simon Lightwood Simon Lightwood Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Great Western Route Modernisation Programme was estimated to cost £2,967m at the time of the 2015 Business Case. The outturn cost for the Programme in 2021/22 was £3,863m.

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