Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2026 to Question 14991 on Network Rail: Biodiversity, what the cost to Network Rail of producing habitat management plans was for each project for which such plans were produced in each of the last five financial years.

Network Rail does not have a centrally recorded figure for the cost per project to produce habitat management plans in the last five financial years. Production of these plans is part of business-as-usual activity within Network Rail’s broader allocations for operations, maintenance, and environmental sustainability.