High Speed 2 Line
(asked on 1st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many employees in total are employed on HS2 development and construction; how many businesses are in the supply chain; and what recent estimate he has made of the number of employees who are dependent on that supply chain.
This question was answered on 6th February 2023
HS2 Ltd informed the Department on 2 February 2023 that it directly employs 1,849 people. The Department’s last 6-monthly report to Parliament on HS2, published in October 2022, stated that the programme is supporting over 29,000 jobs with 2,580 businesses working on HS2.