Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Written Statement of 9 March 2023, HCWS625 on Transport Investment, what estimate he has made of the expected cost to the public purse of delays to construction of HS2 Phase 2a between Birmingham and Crewe.
The Department is continuing to work through the implications of the funding settlement with HS2 Ltd. It will take time to work through the costs for rephasing Phase 2a and further details will be provided in due course, including in the parliamentary update report on HS2 in May.