Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent revisions have been made to his Department's Intercity Express Programme contract with Agility Trains West; and what estimate has been made of Network Rail's total expenditure to date on the Great Western Main Line electrification programme.

The only deed of variation so far this year to the Great Western Mainline (GWML) Intercity Express Contract with Agility Trains West Ltd relates to stabling requirements at the North Pole depot.

Network Rail publishes annual updates of their expenditure on schemes in Statement 3 (Analysis of Enhancement Capital Expenditure) of their regulatory financial statements. The relevant information for the Great Western Main Line can be found at page 27 of their 2016/2017 statement at the following link https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nril-regulatory-financial-statements-for-the-year-ended-31st-march-2016.pdf