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Written Question
High Speed 2 Railway Line
Tuesday 23rd June 2015

Asked by: Keir Starmer (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of constructing High Speed 2 (a) Phase 1 and (b) Phase 2 is in 2015 prices.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Department does not currently hold information on the cost of the scheme in 2015 prices. Costs are consistently expressed in 2011 prices to aid transparency & comparability.

Written Question
High Speed 2 Railway Line
Monday 8th June 2015

Asked by: Keir Starmer (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Government's response to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee's First Report of Session 2014-15, The Economics of High Speed 2, HL Paper 134.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Government will respond to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee's report “The Economics of High Speed 2” shortly. We are confident the case for HS2 is robust and look forward to clarifying the issues the Committee has raised.