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Welsh railways handed £445m after decades of under-funding
Western Mail
|June 12, 2025
Wales lost out on money it would have received through the Barnett formula.
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Plaid argues this has cost Wales £3.9bn in funding, while Welsh Labour has suggested figures in the hundreds of millions. None of the track for HS2 is in Wales.
Ms Saville-Roberts said: "The announcement of £44.5m a year for Welsh rail over the next decade is Labour's flimsy figleaf to excuse the multi-billion-pound, multi-decade scandal that is the Welsh rail injustice.
"Today's funding is only meaning-ful if it matches what Wales will continue to lose from HS2 and all other English rail projects in the future. Labour hopes a few token projects will distract from deep cuts to vital services that hit the most vulnerable hardest, all while shifting the goalposts on Welsh funding. The unfair Barnett formula remains open to manipulation."
Welsh Liberal Democrat Westminster spokesman David Chadwick said: "Labour's contempt for Wales just gets worse and worse.
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