Antoinette Sandbach – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Antoinette Sandbach on 2016-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the current £55.7 billion budget for High Speed 2 is for (a) phase 1, (b) phase 2A and (c) phase 2B; and what the contingency budget is for each such phase.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The 2015 Spending Review reconfirmed the Government’s commitment to the programme providing a long-term funding envelope of £55.7bn in 2015 prices. A breakdown of this envelope with and without contingency has been provided below:
|
£’bn, 2015 Prices |
Phase One |
Phase 2a |
Phase 2b |
Rolling Stock |
Total |
|
Without Contingency |
18.0 |
2.7 |
14.7 |
5.4 |
40.8 |
|
With Contingency |
24.3 |
3.7 |
20.7 |
7 |
55.7 |
