Department for Transport written question – answered at on 22 May 2018.
Jim Cunningham
Labour, Coventry South
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fees, (b) facilitation costs and (c) enabling works for High Speed 2 in each year since 2010.
Nusrat Ghani
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport), Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
Total expenditure on HS2 in the period from 2009-10 to 2016-17 was £2.3bn. This consists of expenditure by both HS2 Ltd on delivering the programme and by the Department for Transport on land and property.
Enabling works are authorised under The High Speed Rail (Preparation) Act 2013. This allows for expenditure to be incurred in preparation for High Speed Two. The total expenditure for enabling works is £134.5m.
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