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Railway Stations: Greater London

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what improvement works on railway stations located within Greater London in (a) wave one and (b) wave two of the Access for All Strategy (i) have been completed, (ii) have been started but not completed and (iii) are scheduled to start (A) in 2009-10, (B) in 2010-11, (C) in 2011-12 and (D) from 2012-13 onwards. (304233)

Stations in the programme were announced in three lists with indicative delivery time scales, but are now part of an integrated delivery plan which is a live document owned by Network Rail.

There are 35 stations in London boroughs, representing a third of the total programme, and of these seven are completed and six are started on site. The remainder are at the design stage and I understand from Network Rail that seven are due to start on site in 2010-11, nine in 2011-12 and six from 2012-13 onwards. I therefore suggest that the hon. Member contact Network Rail’s chief executive at the following address for a response to her questions:

Iain Coucher

Chief Executive

Network Rail

Kings Place

90 York Way

London N1 9AG

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much funding has been (a) allocated to and (b) spent on each railway station located within Greater London as part of (i) wave one and (ii) wave two of the Access for All strategy in (A) 2006-07, (B) 2007-08 and (C) 2008-09; and how much funding has been allocated for each such station under each wave for each year from 2009-10 to 2012-13. (304234)

Stations in the programme were announced in three lists with indicative delivery time scales but are now part of a detailed delivery plan which is a live document owned by Network Rail.

There are 35 stations in London boroughs, representing a third of the total programme, included in the programme, and the current anticipated cost for these is £121.1 million and current funding spent is £49.3 million.

Information on actual spend and future years’ forecast spend for individual sites is held by Network Rail and not the Department for Transport. I suggest the hon. Member therefore contact Network Rail’s chief executive at the following address for a response to her questions:

Iain Coucher

Chief Executive

Network Rail

Kings Place

90 York Way

London N1 9AG

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) which of the 150 stations which have been identified for improvement under the National Stations Improvement Plan are located within Greater London; and for which such stations improvement work (a) has been completed, (b) has been started but not completed, (c) is scheduled to start in 2009-10, (d) is scheduled to start in 2010-11, (e) is scheduled to start in 2011-12 and (f) is scheduled to start from 2012-13 onwards; (304236)

(2) how much of the planned expenditure under the National Stations Improvement Plan has been (a) allocated and (b) spent on each station located within Greater London in 2009-10; and how much has been allocated for each such station in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13 and (iv) 2013-14.

This information is held by Network Rail as the owner and operator of the national rail network. The hon. Member should therefore contact Network Rail’s chief executive at the following address for a response to her questions:

Iain Coucher

Chief Executive

Network Rail

Kings Place

90 York Way

London N1 9AG