§ Mr. EffordTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what London Transport has spent to date on consultancy costs for the London Underground public-private partnership. [123029]
§ Mr. HillI understand from London Transport that their expenditure on external consultants from 20 March 1998 (the date the Government announced the PPP) to 31 March 2000, for work on the PPP and restructuring London Underground, was £60.3 million.