Written questions

Department for Transport: Research

Commons · Question 106041 · Tabled 14 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 23 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 23 Jan 2026

Feasibility studies are a routine part of the Department’s approach to assessing potential transport projects, and the associated costs are managed within individual programme budgets rather than held in a single collated dataset. These studies are conduc...