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Welsh railways have been hindered by underfunding, minister says

Deniz Huseyin
23 January 2025
Jo Stevens: We need to stop deriving the future of rail in Wales from HS2 alone
Jo Stevens: We need to stop deriving the future of rail in Wales from HS2 alone

 

UK Government investment in rail infrastructure in Wales has not been “good enough”, Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens has stated. This was due to “14 years of underfunding” by previous Conservative administrations, said the Labour minister.

At a Welsh Affairs Committee hearing last week, Stevens said her top priority ahead of the Spending Review in June is to “reverse the years of historic underfunding in infrastructure”. She described rail as her number one...

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