Crossrail Line: Finance Dr. Pugh To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what financial commitments have been made by the Government as part of the Crossrail scheme for each of the next five years. Paul Clark Over the next five years, the Department for Transport and Transport for London (as joint sponsors of the Crossrail Project) will make total funding contributions of £5.7 billion for Crossrail. Further detail is provided in the following table. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Year commencing 1 April|DfT committed funding|TfL committed funding| --------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |— |500 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |2009 |172 |522 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |2010 |220 |832 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |2011 |622 |788 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |2012 |1,250 |799 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |2,264 |3,441 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------