Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of installing Hyperloop technology on national transport infrastructure.

The Department’s Scientific Advisory Council recently published its assessment of the Hyperloop concept on the 9^th November 2017.

This concluded that, while Hyperloop has the potential to transform transport globally, a number of considerable technical and commercial challenges remain which mean that its implementation is likely to be several decades away.