Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether they will conduct an updated assessment of the benefit-cost ratio of HS2, including an assessment of changing land use.

The Government will continue to provide updated economic assessments of HS2 at key decision points for the programme, as it has done to date, most recently in January 2022 with the publication of the Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for Phase 2b Crewe-Manchester, subsequently updated in June 2022. The economic analysis in the SOBC provided analysis of a range of impacts, including the impact on land use, and an assessment of the benefit-cost ratio for the Phase 2b Western Leg and a combined appraisal of HS2 Phases 1, 2a and the 2b Western Leg.