Why is there a row about the railway line between Oxford and Cambridge?

A enactment has breached retired astir the railway enactment betwixt Oxford and Cambridge.

The East West Rail Project is acceptable to marque question crossed Britain easier, according to Network Rail, by re-establishing a nexus betwixt the 2 assemblage towns.

But it is classed arsenic an England and Wales project, meaning that Wales does not get a stock of funding, dissimilar successful Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Opposition parties person called for the task to beryllium changed to England-only.

Rail infrastructure successful Wales is simply a reserved matter, which means it is the work of the UK authorities alternatively than the Welsh government.

The Liberal Democrats said Wales would get much than £300m if the authorities changed the task to England-only.

Wales would get that wealth done the Barnett Formula - the population-based method which decides however overmuch wealth devolved governments get to spend.

Politicians person likewise called connected Wales to get "up to £5bn" of consequential funding from the HS2 project, which has besides been classed arsenic England and Wales.

Wales's archetypal minister, Eluned Morgan, told Sky News earlier this twelvemonth she was expecting an "uplift" successful wealth for Welsh railways and branded the HS2 backing "unfair".

In a landmark code past month, Baroness Morgan called for a "fair deal" for Wales arsenic she sought to reset the narration betwixt the Welsh and UK governments.

David Chadwick, Liberal Democrat MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe, said it was "HS2 each implicit again".

"All we privation is Wales to beryllium treated fairly, to person the aforesaid attraction arsenic Scotland and Northern Ireland," helium said.

Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru's MP for Ceredigion Preseli, said neither the East West Rail Project oregon HS2 person been "designed to present benefits to communities successful Wales".

"The UK authorities has antecedently designated ample obstruction projects successful England, specified arsenic Cross Rail successful London, arsenic projects benefitting England alone, and if it were to reclassify HS2 and the Oxford to Cambridge projects successful the aforesaid way, Wales could basal to summation billions successful consequential funding," helium added.

Sam Rowlands, the Welsh Conservatives' shadiness transport secretary, said the task highlighted "further unfairness successful funding".

"The Welsh Conservatives person consistently called for Wales's just stock of HS2 backing and support that this caller task indispensable besides present just consequential funding," helium added.

Sky News has asked the Treasury for its response.