To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport with reference to the answer of 5 November 2009, Official Report, column 1103W, on the Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation: finance, how much his Department and its agencies have spent on (a) pilots, (b) design studies, (c) development, (d) consultants and (e) equipment relating to the Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation in each of the last 10 years. (301472)

The table sets out payments made directly to ITSO Ltd. (and its predecessor, the Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation) in the last 10 years, broken down into development and consultancy. Please note the membership fees are included in the development figures.

No funding for pilot schemes has been paid directly to ITSO Ltd. However, the Department for Transport has made payments to public authorities to support pilots and in some cases the transition of legacy schemes to ITSO compliance.

The Department has not fund design studies for ITSO.

The Department has not directly funded equipment purchase for ITSO Ltd. However, some public authority schemes will have used DFT funding to purchase equipment for their schemes, for example smartcard readers.