Scottish Government 2022/23 ScotRail budget: FOI release

Information requested

With regards to the Scottish Government 2022/23 budget:

a) How does the budget allowed for operating ScotRail compare with the operating costs for previous years?

b) What additional spend in 2022/23 is allowed for in respect of new rolling stock on top of normal operating costs?

Response

The answer to your question is:

a) How does the budget allowed for operating ScotRail compare with the operating costs for previous years?

How the budget allowed for operating ScotRail compares with the operating costs for previous years can be found at the links:

Supporting documents - Scottish Budget 2022 to 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Supporting documents - Scottish Budget 2021 to 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Supporting documents - Scottish Budget 2020-2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Supporting documents - Scottish Budget 2019-2020 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Supporting documents - Scottish Budget: draft budget 2018-2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Supporting documents - Scotland's Budget: Draft Budget 2017-2018 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

b) What additional spend in 2022/23 is allowed for in respect of new rolling stock on top of normal operating costs?

Work is underway on the business case for the procurement of new electric and battery electric rolling stock as part of the rail decarbonisation programme. However, the leads times for new rolling stock means this will not be introduced in the next year.

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