High Speed 2 Line: Parliamentary Scrutiny
(asked on 23rd October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of preparations by officials for parliamentary scrutiny of sections of HS2 that have since been cancelled.
This question was answered on 26th October 2023
The High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Act, which covers Phase 2a, received Royal Assent in February 2021. In January 2022, the Government introduced the High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Bill into Parliament. Spending on phase 2a and b up to and including February 2023 is reported in the Department for Transport’s last HS2 report to Parliament in June 2023.