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Ringfence wiring cash for Wales – Skates

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04 August 2017
Skates: Wales needs fair share of rail funding
Skates: Wales needs fair share of rail funding

 

The Welsh Government is demanding that the UK Government ringfences funding that would have been spent electrifying Cardiff to Swansea for other rail investment in Wales. 

Transport secretary Chris Grayling announced the cancellation of the electrification last month (LTT21 Jul). 

In a letter to Grayling, Welsh economy secretary Ken Skates says: “Funding and delivery of electrification to Swansea was announced in 2012, and restated in 2014 by the Prime Minister David...

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