Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department has given to the four British bids to build Hyperloop lines in the UK; and what steps his Department has taken to assess the potential merits of Hyperloop lines.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge is a privately-run competition, so it would not be appropriate for government to provide support for individual entries. The Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council will publish a paper on hyperloop shortly setting out its view of the technical credibility of the concept and the opportunities it offers to UK industry.