Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 106041

Department for Transport: Research

Tabled: 14 January 2026

Answered: 23 January 2026

Question

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

Simon Lightwood

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...

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