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High Speed Two

Commons · Question 38121 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 21 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Jerome Mayhew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of conclusion one of the Public Account Committee's report entitled HS2: Update following the Northern leg cancellation, HC 357, publi

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 21 Mar 2025

In light of the Public Account Committee’s recent report on High Speed Two (HS2), this government’s priority is to deliver HS2 Phase 1 safely and to the lowest reasonable cost. We have set out urgent measures to get the programme back on track and have ta...