To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much public funding is scheduled to be spent on upgrading the Ballymena-Coleraine-Londonderry rail line in the 2006-07 financial year. (101368)

Translink has advised that it expects to spend £635,000 in the 2006-07 financial year on the Ballymena-Coleraine-Londonderry rail line. This is to maintain services at present levels rather than to upgrade services.