Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much EU funding has been provided for ground investigations related to High Speed 2.
The Department for Transport was awarded €39.2 million for HS2 under the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility to fund Ground Investigation works for Phase 1 of the High Speed 2 Programme. The EU has agreed to provide this funding in stages between 2015 and 2019.