Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list all payments to WS Atkins for work (a) on and (b) about High Speed Two made by (i) his Department and (ii) HS2 Ltd.

The costs paid to WS Atkins on the HS2 project date back to 2009. The department has paid £827,218.15. This principally relates to the passage of the hybrid Bill. HS2 Ltd has paid £85,672,231.94. This principally relates to engineering work on Phase One of the project.