Timing of DfT transport review and devolved government plans?

[MPW]

Does anyone know when the DfT rail/transport review will be published? I suspect some time around the budget but could be a longer timescale project.

Transport infrastructure review

An internal review of DfT's capital spend portfolio will be commissioned to support a long-term strategy for transport.

www.gov.uk

As the Chancellor informed Parliament, I am commissioning an internal review of DfT’s capital spend portfolio. We will bring in external expertise and move quickly to make recommendations about current and future schemes. This review will support the development of our new long-term strategy for transport, developing a modern and integrated network with people at its heart and ensuring that transport infrastructure can be delivered efficiently and on time.

I also expect something from the devolved government's, including greater London, but there's even less to go off for that timing. Is it too soon to expect their new strategies to be ready at same time as the national one?

I'm not sure whether to expect a long-scale renewals and upgrades (signalling and electrification etc) vs major projects. Hoping for both!

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

The wider capital review is not just transport of course.
It will also cover defence, schools, hospitals, prisons etc, and priorities will have to be set.
Peter Hendy will already know a lot about the NR portfolio, but has only just started on HS2 and its multiple issues.
They also have to work out what the private sector can do to help (as they did for HS1).

I'm reminded of an earlier (Labour) review in 1975 which decided that as we couldn't afford to fund all 3 major projects needing money, we would cancel the Channel Tunnel and the New London Airport projects.
We kept Concorde, largely because we had signed a treaty with France not to cancel it (to prevent France doing it).
Concorde came and went, the Channel Tunnel was built with private money, and we are still waiting for a new London airport (though Stansted partially filled the breech).