Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will carry out a cost benefit analysis of the effect of High Speed 2 on Leigh.
The Government has completed the cost benefit analysis in the North West as part of the Phase 2b Economic Case (July 2017). It showed that the current Phase 2b scheme is the best way to provide the desired capacity, connectivity and economic growth benefits to the Midlands and the North.