HC Deb 12 May 1999 vol 331 cc154-5W
Dr. Stoate

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 13 January 1999,Official Report, column 212, what has been spent to date on consultancy costs for the London Underground public-private partnership. [84207]

Ms Glenda Jackson

I understand from London Transport that their expenditure on external consultants, from 20 March 1998 (the date of the Government's announcement) to 31 March 1999, for work on the PPP and restructuring London Underground was –18.5 million.