Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many contracts have been signed for new rolling stock in each month since the Rolling Stock Plan was published; what the (a) value of each contract and (b) company with which each contract was held was; and how much additional rolling stock each contract represented. (253311)

Please see the table for detail of contracts:

	Number	(a) Estimated value (£ million)	(b) Company	Rolling Stock
January 2008	1	11	Bombardier	8 DMU vehicles
February 2008	0	—	—	—
March 2008	1	57	Bombardier	44 EMU vehicles
April 2008	0	—	—	—
May 2008	0	—	—	—
June 2008	0	—	—	—
July 2008	0	—	—	—
August 2008	0	—	—	—
September 2008	1	269	Alstom	106 EMU vehicles
October 2008	0	—	—	—
November 2008	0	—	—	—
December 2008	0	—	—	—

255 of the HLOS carriages were on order when the rolling stock plan was published in January 2008, bringing the total now in order to 423.

Volume 487: debated on Monday 9 February 2009