Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff worked for HS2 Ltd in each of the last eight years.

The total number of staff directly employed by HS2 Ltd in each of the last eight years is as follows:

These figures show the number that were employed in each financial year. It varies slightly from published figures contained in the Annual Report and Accounts and the Corporate Plan as this table only includes Employees, Graduates and Apprentices and is not net of people who have left in the Financial year.