Sections · PESA departmental group
Transport
The Department for Transport and the bodies in its group, including Network Rail, National Highways and HS2. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £29.3bn on services. £15.4bn of it (52.7%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 94.3% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Joint ventures
Several of the largest payees are construction joint ventures, which are not registered companies and so can't be matched to a register. They are named, not identified.
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£3.7bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 11 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
| Publisher | Months | Records | Identified | Named only | Withheld | Passed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department for Transport | 12 | 31,103 | £11.7bn | £12.2bn | £33k | £20.8bn |
The largest payees not yet identified
Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.
| Payee, as published | 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| BALFOUR BEATTY VINCI JV - HS2 (N2) | £2.5bn |
| EIFFAGE KIER FERROVIAL BAM JOINT VENTURE | £2.2bn |
| GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY | £1.8bn |
| SKANSKA COSTAIN STRABAG S1 JOINT | £1.1bn |
| WEST MIDLANDS TRAINS | £680m |
| DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSIN | £403m |
| CHILTERN RAILWAYS | £347m |
| ALIGN JOINT VENTURE | £301m |
| FIRST TRENITALIA RAIL | £283m |
| EUROTUNNEL | £177m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Economic affairs | £28.8bn | 99% |
| Public order and safety | £418m | 1% |
| Social protection | £13m | 0% |
| Environment protection | £2m | 0% |