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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 63535, tabled on 7 February 2017

Question

Steve Rotheram
Labour
Liverpool, Walton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse has been of consultants working on High Speed 2.

Answer

Andrew Jones
Conservative
Harrogate and Knaresborough
Commons

Answered on

15 February 2017

HS2 Ltd element of consultancy expenditure, as defined by the Cabinet Office, is not readily available in the format requested and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.

As defined by the Cabinet Office, the Department for Transport (High Speed Rail Group) expenditure on consultancy (i.e. provision of advice) on High Speed 2 for the period April 2011 to March 2016 was £29.7m.

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