Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been (a) paid to and (b) is due to be paid to under contract provisions (i) Atkins, (ii) BAM Nuttall, (iii) Balfour Beatty, (iv) Rivault Bouyges Travaux Publics, (v) Costain, (vi) EiffageGenie Civil, (vii) Keltbray Group (Holdings) Ltd, (viii) Kier, (ix) Mace, (x) Mott Macdonald, (xi) Ramboil, (xiii) Stantec, (xiv) Sir Robert McAlpine, (xv) Skanska, (xvi) Strabag, (xvii) VINCI plc, (xviii) VolkerWessels UK and (xix) WSP UK for work connected to HS2 in each of the last ten years.

a) All contractual payments over £25000 are published online as part of the Government’s transparency agenda, and can be found at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/804be0c6-ae01-4899-bbb9-2317dff1a4f9/spend-over-25-000-in-department-for-transport-and-its-arms-length-bodies

b) Over 2000 organisations have been awarded contracts to deliver HS2 work to date. The Oakervee Review into High Speed 2 is under consideration. Contracts going forward will depend on decision that follow this.