Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Minute No. 16/20 of Network Rail's Board minutes of 24 February 2016, who carried out the third pay review of Network Rail's renewal proposals; and what was the cost of that review was to the public purse.

An independent peer review of Network Rail’s renewals proposals, as referred to in Network Rail’s Board minutes of 24 February 2016, was conducted by Sotera Risk Solutions. The cost was £4,700 exclusive of Value Added Tax.