WELSH rail funding hit the buffers yesterday after the government was asked to admit when it knew the Oxford-Cambridge rail line was designated an England and Wales project.

Plaid Cymru transport lead Peredur Owen Griffiths wrote to Transport Secretary Ken Skates about when the Welsh government learnt about the reclassification.

The nationalists also asked which Welsh rail projects would lose out on investment as a result of the decision.

Mr Owen Griffiths said new information revealed the project was previously classified as England only in the Conservative government’s 2020-24 editions of Westminster’s Statement of Funding Policies.

Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth asked First Minister Eluned Morgan about Labour moving the goalposts and creating its own HS2 high-speed rail scandal after the Tories had classified this for four years as an England-only project.

“This is duplicitous politics of the first order,” Mr ap Iorwerth said.

Ms Morgan responded: “When it comes to rail funding, we do not get our fair share and the Westminster government has recognised that injustice.”