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Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to recover public money from contractors and suppliers whose actions contributed to cost overruns identified in the Lovegrove report.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
8 Jun 2026
Answer
15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to recover public money from contractors and suppliers whose actions contributed to cost overruns identified in the Lovegrove report.

  2. 8 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Sir Steven Lovegrove's review contains a number of recommendations that the government will give due consideration, as it did with James Stewart’s review. The Lovegrove Review's terms of reference were not to duplicate prior inquiries but to take them as ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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