To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether a financing agreement is in place for the Crossrail project. (158495)

[holding answer 16 October 2007]: I refer the right hon. Member to the White Paper for the 2007 pre-Budget report and Comprehensive Spending Review presented to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 9 October 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will place a copy in the Library of the financial agreement on Crossrail. (158492)

Subject to commercial confidentiality, the Secretary of State expects to place relevant agreements in the Library in due course.