Antoinette Sandbach – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Antoinette Sandbach on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35399, what amount has been allocated within the overall cost envelope to deal with salt and subsidence issues related to the proposed High Speed 2(b) route; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that that funding is sufficient in the absence of the information that would have been provided by intrusive geological surveys.

Mr Robert Goodwill

No specific amount has been allocated to dealing with salt and subsidence issues beyond the funding envelope announced for the project in November 2015.