Breakdown of transport projects following the scrapping of HS2’s northern section

The government has outlined where the money saved from the scrapping of Phase 2 of the HS2 project will be used. Following yesterday’s announcement, Rishi Sunak says areas will benefit from new stations, reopened railway lines and revitalised roads in what he describes as a “major funding boost to create stronger public transport networks”.

The Prime Minister says a total of £36 billion in savings from HS2 will be reinvested in hundreds of transport projects across the country, delivering more buses, reopening railway stations and ensuring major funding for new and improved roads.

It follows the announcement of the Network North plan, which will still see HS2 delivered between Birmingham and Euston in central London. The Prime Minister says every penny that would have been spent extending the route will instead be redirected into roads, rail and buses to drive economic growth and provide jobs.

The decision has been criticised by rail industry leaders, whose opinions can be read here.

The government says £12 billion will be set aside for links between Liverpool and Manchester to ensure the delivery of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and then invest £36 billion in hundreds of projects in towns, cities and rural areas across our whole country, and in roads, rail and buses.

Over £3 billion will also help deliver faster and more frequent trains between Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester, including bringing Hull into Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR), upgrading and electrify the line between Sheffield and Leeds, and upgrade the route between Sheffield and Manchester.

Bradford will be given a new through station and new line linking to the NPR route near Huddersfield, with a Bradford-Manchester journey time of around 30 minutes once the new high-speed line west of Marsden is open.

The Midlands Rail Hub will be delivered in full with £1.75 billion of increased investment to speed up journey times, increase capacity and boost frequency of services across the region.

Below is a breakdown, by region, of what the money will be spent on.

North West

• Nearly £4 billion through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) to ensure all 6 Northern city regions will receive more than double their CRSTS1 funding to improve connectivity in their areas, which could pay for schemes such as the extension of the Manchester Metrolink to Heywood, Bolton, Wigan and Manchester Airport and bus rapid transit corridors in Manchester
• a brand new £2.5 billion fund to transform local transport in 14 rural counties, smaller cities and towns. This new money could pay for new stations, further electrification, bus corridors and new integrated public transport networks. The Energy Coast Line between Carlisle, Workington and Barrow will be upgraded, improving capacity and journey times, enabling trains every 30 minutes between Carlisle, Workington and Whitehaven. The upgrade will also accommodate major new freight demands from the new coal mine and provide regular services for the Westlakes Science Park, Nuclear Academy and Sellafield. This could support the creation of over 18,000 jobs
• £100 million will be shared across the North and Midlands to support the development and rollout of London-style contactless and smart ticketing, supporting seamless travel by enabling contactless or smartcard payment
• £3.3 billion long-term road resurfacing fund for North alone will combat the potholes causing misery for drivers and more than £500 million in funding will be provided for 2 major road schemes around Manchester. These include a new link road between the M62 and the M60, Manchester’s ring road and the busiest freight route outside the M25. The scheme will help tackle congestion and reduce delays  
• a total of £300 million will ensure the delivery of 9 smaller road schemes, including the A582 South Ribble Distributor, Kendal Northern Access Route and the Wigan East-West Route
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned. This will mean passengers on a bus journey from Lancaster to Kendal will save £12.50 every time they travel
• a £700 million bus funding package in the North will also see more buses and more frequent routes. They will include a new service to Royal Blackburn Hospital, doubling the service between Northwich and Chester and more buses to industrial estates and business parks
• Greater Manchester will also receive around £1.5 billion from the CRSTS2 budget and around £900 million additional funding – funded from HS2 – which is an unprecedented investment in local transport networks. That is more than double their allocation under the previous programme
• Liverpool City Region will also receive c.£1 billion from the CRSTS2 budget, plus a further £600 million on top – funded from HS2. That is more than double their allocation under the last round.

North East

• Nearly £4 billion through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) to ensure all 6 Northern city regions will receive more than double their CRSTS1 funding to improve connectivity in their areas, benefiting millions of people living in the towns and suburbs around Newcastle and Teesside, funding new roads in the Tees Valley
• funding to dual a section of the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham
• a £460 million package will also ensure the delivery of 21 smaller road schemes across the North, including the Blyth Relief Road
• communities in the North East will be reconnected by the reopening of stations closed under the 1960s Beeching reforms, including a new station at Ferryhill, County Durham
• £100 million will be shared across the North and Midlands to support the development and rollout of London-style contactless and smart ticketing, supporting seamless travel by enabling contactless or smartcard payment
• a £3.3 billion long-term road resurfacing fund for the North alone will combat the potholes causing misery for drivers in the region
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned – and a £700 million bus funding package in the North will see more buses and more frequent routes, with more buses to industrial estates and business parks
• the North East will receive around £1.2 billion from the CRSTS2 budget, plus a further £0.7 billion on top – funded from HS2. That is more than triple their allocation under CRSTS 1 (c.£1.8 billion versus c.£0.6 billion)
• Tees Valley also will receive c.£0.6 billion from the CRSTS2 budget, plus a further c.£0.4 billion on top – funded from HS2. That is more than triple their allocation under CRSTS1 (c.£1.0 billion versus c.£0.3 billion).

East Midlands

• The number of trains between Leicester and Birmingham will be doubled from 2 to 4 per hour
• a guaranteed £1.5 billion to empower the new East Midlands City Region Mayor to transform transport for 2.2 million people living in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. This is an average of almost £1,000 for everyone in the 2 counties. The new combined authority could use the funding to extend the Nottingham Tram system to serve Gedling and Clifton South and connect Derby to East Midlands Parkway with a Bus Rapid Transit System
• stations and lines closed under the 1960s Beeching reforms will be reopened, including the Ivanhoe Line between Leicester and Burton, connecting 250,000 people across South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire, with new stations en route
• funding will also be provided for the Barrow Hill Line between Chesterfield and Sheffield Victoria, with a new station at Staveley in Derbyshire
• £100 million will be shared across the North and Midlands to support the development and rollout of London-style contactless and smart ticketing, supporting seamless travel by enabling contactless or smartcard payment
• funding to fix 2 major pinch points on the A5 between Hinckley and Tamworth, a stretch of road linking the M1 and M6 that serves more than 1 million people. Funding will also be provided for improvements to the A50/500 corridor between Stoke and Derby, cutting congestion for the 90,000 drivers who use the road each day and ensuring smoother journeys for drivers and freight around Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Magna Park and other major local employers
• a Midlands Road Fund worth nearly £650 million will be launched for new road schemes
• a brand-new £2.2 billion fund to transform local transport in every part of the Midlands outside the mayoral combined authority areas and the new East Midlands combined authority – rural counties such as Shropshire, smaller cities like Leicester and towns such as Evesham
• a further £250 million will fully fund 10 smaller road schemes in the Midlands, including the A509 Isham Bypass, near Kettering, and the A43 between Northampton and Kettering
• £2.2 billion for the Midlands to combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• £230 million will be invested in increasing the frequency of bus services in the Midlands and the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned
• the East Midlands will get a brand-new City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) allocation of over £1.5 billion as it embarks on its new status as a combined authority next year.

Yorkshire and the Humber

• A fully funded £2.5 billion West Yorkshire mass-transit system, giving the region better connections to Bradford and Wakefield. Leeds will no be longer the biggest European city without a mass-transit system, with up to 7 lines potentially created as part of a transformed network, eventually linking Leeds to Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Wakefield – all in operation before HS2 would have reached the region
• Hull will also be brought into the Northern Powerhouse Rail network, reducing journey time from Leeds from 58 minutes to just 48. The number of trains between Hull and Sheffield will be doubled, to 2 per hour, with capacity also doubled. Journeys from Hull to Manchester will drop from  115 to 84 minutes, enabling 2 fast trains to Leeds
• the line between Sheffield and Leeds will be electrified and upgraded, giving passengers a choice of 3 to 4 fast trains an hour, instead of 1, with journey times of 40 minutes. A new mainline station for Rotherham will also be added to the route, which could give the town its first direct service to London since the 1980s, boosting capacity by 300%
• the Hope Valley Line between Manchester and Sheffield will also be electrified and upgraded, with the aim of cutting journey times from 51 to 42 minutes and increasing the number of fast trains on the route from 2 to 3 per hour, doubling capacity
• communities will be reconnected through the reopening of lines and stations closed under the Beeching reforms of the 1960s. This will include the restoration of the Don Valley Line between Stocksbridge and Sheffield Victoria, and new stations at Haxby Station, near York, Waverley, near Rotherham, and the Don Valley Line from Sheffield to Stocksbridge
• £100 million will be shared across the North and Midlands to support the development and rollout of London-style contactless and smart ticketing, supporting seamless travel by enabling contactless or smartcard payment
• nearly £4 billion through City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) to ensure all 6 Northern city regions will receive more than double their CRSTS1 funding to improve connectivity in their areas, which could pay for schemes such as bus rapid transit corridors in Bradford and Leeds
• £1.4 billion for South Yorkshire, including £500 million from savings from HS2 and the CRSTS.  
• £2.1 billion for West Yorkshire, including £800 from savings from HS2. This includes a £500 million downpayment for the West Yorkshire Mass Transit
• a brand-new £2.5 billion fund to transform local transport in 14 rural counties, smaller cities, and towns outside the big city regions. A brand-new £2.5 billion fund to transform local transport in every part of the North outside the mayoral combined authority areas –rural counties, smaller cities and towns. This new money could finance projects like more electric buses in Harrogate and better bus-rail interchange in Scarborough
• a total of £460 million will ensure the delivery of smaller road schemes across the North like the Shipley Eastern Bypass, near Bradford, while a £1 billion roads package in the North could support new schemes like the A1-A19 Hickleton Bypass in Doncaster, easing pressure on traffic
• a £3.3 billion long-term road resurfacing fund for North alone will combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned and a £700 million bus funding package in the North will see more buses and more frequent routes, with more buses to industrial estates and business parks.

West Midlands

• Over £1 billion more for the West Midlands Mayoral budget to fund the second phase of the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill metro extension, contribute to the costs of a mass transit system from East Birmingham to Solihull and fund the building of Aldridge Station
• communities reconnected by reopening closed Beeching lines, including the Stoke to Leek line and the Oswestry to Gobowen line, with a new stop at Park Hall. A new station will be built at Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, on the existing Crewe to Derby line 
• £100 million will be shared across the North and Midlands to support the development and rollout of London-style contactless and smart ticketing, supporting seamless travel by enabling contactless or smartcard payment
• a brand new £2.2 billion fund to transform local transport in every part of the Midlands outside the mayoral combined authority areas and the new East Midlands combined authority – rural counties such as Shropshire, smaller cities like Leicester and towns such as Evesham. This could pay for smaller, more demand-driven buses in rural areas and funding for greener bus fleets, as well as funding the refurbishment of Kidsgrove and Longport stations, near Stoke-on-Trent
• a further £250 million will fully fund 10 smaller road schemes in the Midlands including the Shrewsbury North Western Relief Road and the A4123 Birchley Island, near Oldbury. A Midlands Road Fund worth nearly £650 million will be launched for new road schemes
• £230 million will be invested in increasing the frequency of bus services in the Midlands, which could be spent on new bus stops around Telford and park and ride upgrades elsewhere in Shropshire and new bus lanes in Herefordshire
• £2.2 billion for the Midlands to combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned.

East Anglia

• Remodelling of the Ely North and Haughley Junctions, a vital part of East Anglia’s rail network where 5 busy rail lines converge
• An enhanced spine route for rail freight will be delivered, allowing an extra 6 freight trains per day to run to and from the Port of Felixstowe – the equivalent of 98,000 lorry journeys off the road each year, including across the Midlands and the North
• £610 million in funding to ensure the delivery of 39 road schemes across East Anglia, the South East and South West, including the A10 between Ely and Cambridge. Thirteen of these schemes will be in the East of England with a funding pot of £180m million 
• a further £1 billion fund will be launched for new road schemes in the East, South West and South East
• access to a £2.8 billion roads resurfacing fund for the East, South East and South West of England to combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be kept and extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned.

South East

• In London, the government will look to establish a Development Corporation to create a transformed ‘Euston Quarter’, modelling the successful regeneration of Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and Kings Cross. 

• funding to ensure the delivery of road schemes including the A2 at Brenley Corner, a notorious bottleneck on the corridor to Dover 
• £290 million in funding to ensure the delivery of 14 road schemes across the South East, among them the A259 between Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 
• access to a £2.8 billion roads resurfacing fund for the South East, South West and East of England to combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• a further £1 billion fund will be launched for new road schemes  
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned

South West

• The government will seek to establish a Development Corporation in London to create a transformed ‘Euston Quarter’ and look to leverage private sector investment in the process. This will unlock £6.5 billion to invest in projects. In the South West, these funds will be provided for rail improvements, including reopening and reintroducing passenger services to Wellington and Cullompton. Five miles of track will be reinstated, with a new station at Tavistock to connect it with Plymouth.  

• funding set aside to complete the South West Resilience Programme in full, making the vital route between Exeter and Plymouth via Dawlish more resilient in the face of extreme weather
• funding the opening of railway lines between Cullompton and Wellington, and Tavistock to Plymouth, connecting communities on these routes 
• £140 million in funding to ensure the delivery of 12 road schemes across the South West – among them the A38 in North Somerset
• a further £1 billion fund will be launched for new road schemes in the South West, South East and East of England 
• access to a £2.8 billion roads resurfacing fund for the South West, South East and the East of England to combat the potholes causing misery for drivers
• the popular £2 bus fare will also be extended until the end of December 2024 instead of rising to £2.50 as planned
• the West of England will also receive c.£0.7 billion from the City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement 2 (CRSTS2) budget, plus a further £0.1 billion on top – funded from HS2. That is 40% more than their allocation under CRSTS1 (c.£0.8 billion versus £0.5 billion )

Wales

• £1 billion investment will bring parts of North Wales within an hour of Manchester through a major upgrade of the North Wales Main Line, including electrification. It will mean journeys will become more punctual and reliable on the 105-mile route between Crewe, Liverpool, Warrington, Wrexham and Holyhead, where ferry services run to Dublin. 
• The funding comes alongside £12 billion set aside for Northern Powerhouse Rail, allowing delivery of high-speed links between Manchester and Liverpool as previously planned.  

Scotland

• Scotland will benefit from funding to solve the pinch points on the A75 between Gretna and Stranraer, providing better links between the Cairnryan ferry terminals serving Northern Ireland and southwest Scotland – recognising the importance of east-west connectivity within the UK.  
• Upgrades to the A1 coastal route between Newcastle and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Edinburgh, reducing congestion for the communities of Ashington, Felton, Alnwick and Amble.