Somerset MP says Wellington train station will go ahead
Gideon Amos has received confirmation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Last updated 30th Jul 2024
Taunton and Wellington MP Gideon Amos has received confirmation from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the new Wellington Railway Station will go ahead.
Addressing the House of Commons, the Chancellor pledged to 'restore economic stability' after revealing £22 billion of unfunded pressures inherited from the previous Government.
Amongst the projects to be scrapped, Rachel Reeves confirmed the government was cancelling projects in the Restoring Your Railway programme – through which the Wellington project was being funded.
In his first question in Parliament, Gideon Amos asked whether projects like Wellington Station, which had already received stage four investment funding, would still go ahead.
“I can give assurances that projects which have already started, like the station he mentioned, will go ahead," Reeves said.
In response, Gideon Amos said: "I was keen to use my first intervention in Parliament to challenge the Chancellor to confirm the new Wellington Station project and it was good to get her assurance so early in the new Parliament that the new station will continue to go ahead - but I won’t be leaving anything to chance."
“Having worked in my previous job to successfully deliver a new now fully opened station, I’m now not stopping until we’ve delivered the new station Wellington deserves and which former LibDem Jeremy Browne became the first MP to propose in Parliament back in 2014."