Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will he publish the (a) annual salaries and (b) bonuses paid to HS2 Ltd personnel in the last 12 months.

In line with the Government’s policy on transparency, HS2 Ltd publishes details of salaries and director remuneration in the company’s Annual Report and Accounts and, where applicable, on the Cabinet Office website. The next report, which covers 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, will be available by the end of July 2020. Previous reports, dating back to the 2009-10 financial year, are available on the gov.uk website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hs2-annual-reports-and-accounts#annual-reports-and-accounts

In the last 12 months the following bonus payments were made to three individuals that achieved agreed performance criteria in the 2018/19 financial year: £36,743; £24,710 and £15,975.