Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people working on the airport capacity programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.

The Heathrow Expansion Programme (formerly known as the Airport Capacity Programme) has the equivalent of 55.3 full time civil servants currently working on the programme. The programme does not currently employ any contingent labour.

The civil servant team is supported by a number of suppliers that support the Government on a range of legal, commercial and financial matters.