Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential for the development of hyperloop type train technologies in the UK.

My department is in discussion with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Innovate UK and the Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council to assess the potential for the development of hyperloop technologies in the UK. The Science Advisory Council intends to publish a paper on hyperloop in early 2017 setting out its position on the technical credibility of the concept and the opportunities it offers to UK industry given our technology and engineering expertise.