Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding from the public purse his Department has allocated to the garden bridge project; and how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been working on that project.

In 2014, the Department committed £30 million of funding towards the Garden Bridge as a way of kick-starting the project and to act as a catalyst to stimulate private sector investment. Various conditions were attached to the Department’s funding, and around £7.5 million will be clawed back should the bridge not be built. No Department for Transport staff work full-time on the project.