Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2018 to Question 145409 on High Speed 2 Railway Line: Manchester Airport, how many other High Speed Two rail stations will receive funding from (a) local authorities and (b) local interest groups.

There are several examples of third party funding being provided towards the costs of High Speed Two stations, including towards local connectivity, the details of which are under discussion and therefore commercially sensitive.

A station in the Manchester Airport area was included as part of the proposed High Speed Two route only when it was petitioned for by Greater Manchester (Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Manchester Airports Group and other local partners), and only on the basis of the local funding offer they made, in recognition of the benefits that a second High Speed Two station in Manchester would bring to the local area.