High Speed 2 Railway Line

(asked on 29th June 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
(Labour - Nottingham South)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total (a) revenue and (b) capital expenditure on HS2 has been in each year from 2009-10 from (i) his Department, (ii) HS2 Ltd and (iii) Network Rail.

Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 4th July 2017

In the six years between 2009/10 and 2015/16 the Government spent around £1.4bn on delivering the HS2 programme. This is made up of the costs incurred by HS2 Ltd and expenditure on land and property. HS2 Ltd expenditure includes payments made to Network Rail. The Department for Transport also spent around £70m on internal resource costs, including staff and technical support.

The table below sets out HS2 expenditure by year:

2009/10 £m

2010/11 £m

2011/12 £m

2012/13 £m

2013/14 £m

2014/15 £m

2015/16 £m

HS2 Ltd

Resource

9.4

14.6

33.9

176.4

208.4

33.1

34.4

Capital

0.03

0.1

0.4

8.1

2.1

156.5

318.5

Land & Property

Capital

9.6

19.7

23.1

105.3

174.9

113.2

DfT

Resource

1.7

5.6

14.7

20.9

26.5

Total

9.43

24.3

55.7

213.2

330.5

385.4

492.6

For the purposes of this response, “revenue” has been interpreted as meaning “resource expenditure”. Figures for 2016-17 will be available later in the summer as part of the HS2 Ltd Accounts. Due to the configuration of the HS2 Ltd accounting system, it would be disproportionately costly to disaggregate NR costs from HS2 Ltd total expenditure.

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