Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many individual contracts have been awarded by HS2 for (a) rolling stock, (b) construction, (c) railway systems and (d) corporate services; and what proportion of those contracts were awarded to businesses based in the UK.

Two contracts have been awarded for (a) rolling stock (100% awarded to businesses based in the UK), (b) 360 construction related contracts have been awarded (94.4% awarded to businesses based in the UK), (c) two contracts have been awarded for railway systems so far (100% awarded to businesses based in the UK), (d) 1,970 contracts have been awarded for corporate services (98.2% awarded to businesses based in the UK).