Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what effect the Government's cancellation of the Golborne Link component of HS2 has had on the overall cost-benefit analysis of HS2.

On 20 June 2022 the Government announced in a Written Ministerial Statement laid in Parliament the publication of a Supplement to the January 2022 update to the High Speed 2 (HS2) Crewe to Manchester Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC): www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-crewe-to-manchester-impacts-of-removing-the-golborne-link. This provides analysis of the economic implications, including on the Benefit-Cost Ratio, of removing the Golborne Link from the High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester) Bill scheme.”