Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish the (a) business case and (b) payment schedule for the £30 million allocated to the Garden Bridge project in the National Infrastructure Plan 2013.

The Garden Bridge business case was published in May 2014. A copy can be obtained following this link:

https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-strategic-outline-business-case.pdf

The full £30 million of Government’s contribution was provided to Transport for London (TfL) in 2014/15 via their general grant. A funding agreement was signed which required, among other things,　that TfL would jointly manage phased drawdown of both ‘their’ £30 million and ‘ours’ according to certain conditions:

https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-funding-agreement.pdf