Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the new railway station at Tempsford.

The current cost estimate for Connection Stages 2/3 of EWR is £5-6bn, which is inclusive of an interchange station at Tempsford. The design of Tempsford station is not sufficiently advanced to give a robust cost estimate at this time.