Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2026 to Question 16602 on Office of Rail and Road: Public Relations, what was the purpose of the £14,280 expenditure with Savanta; and whether that expenditure included (a) polling, (b) opinion research, (c) stakeholder engagement and (d) communications advice.

The Office of Rail and Road's expenditure with Savanta, split over a two-year period, was to support ORR's small in-house public affairs function. Given the commercial sensitivity of contracting with suppliers, ORR does not publish detailed information about the services provided under individual contracts.