Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 11 February (HL Deb, col 2153), whether the projected cost for the first phase of HS2 includes the capital cost of rolling stock, provision of power supply, and infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance facilities.

The projected costs for HS2 (phase 1) are inclusive of the design and build of the rolling stock, the connections to the national grid for power supplies, and the infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance facility.