Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much they have spent on preparing the legislation that would establish Great British Railways, broken down by (1) consultant costs, and (2) the cost of the number of hours civil servants spent on the work.

The budget for rail transformation is set and spend monitored, at the programme level.

The programme does not monitor on an aggregated basis time spent solely on preparing legislation, plus civil servants working on rail reform legislation also work on other areas.