Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money from the public purse has been spent on the Thameslink project to improve the infrastructure to all rail lines that run (a) into and (b) out of London Bridge Station; and if he will make a statement.

The estimated total cost for Thameslink Programme London Bridge Station infrastructure works including civils works and associated Railway Systems is £1.6 billion.

Of this total cost, the cost of the railway systems work, including track and signalling at London Bridge station and on its approaches, was £508 million at January 2018.

The overall package has delivered major capacity enhancements, and, with 24 Thameslink trains per hour being able to run at peak times through the central London core from 2019, the station concourse now has two-thirds more space for passengers and it will have the ability to cope with 96 million passengers per year, up from the 54 million today.