THE MP for Wellington and Taunton is calling for the new Wellington Station to be fully funded by the government.

After last Wednesday’s (June 11) Spending Review, a Treasury Official shared that “funding to support the reopening of stations at Wellington and Cullompton” would be provided, with “further details [to be] set out shortly.”

The announcement follows 12 months of local campaigning after Ms Reeves scrapped the previous Conservative Government’s ‘Restoring Your Railways’ fund last summer from which the Wellington station would have been financed.

Mr Amos wrote to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the Secretary of State for Transport, Heidi Alexander, on Friday, June 13, saying that the Treasury statement “leaves a lot of key information to be clarified.”

He added: “In particular, it would not be sensible, from the government’s own point of view, to provide only a proportion of the funds required for the project.

“Only partial funding, given the £5-million of matching funding already contributed, would take away the key benefit of both stations being built and operational within two years, given that detailed design work is all but completed.

“For the sake of people’s jobs, businesses, livelihoods and educational chances in the Southwest, this opportunity for the region to see some of the £180-million growth benefits of this project within the next two years must not be missed.”