High Speed 2 Line: Costs
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of inflation on the cost of HS2.
This question was answered on 21st November 2022
The Department reports to parliament on the status of the programme every six months. The most recent report reflected the impact of high inflation, which has been prevalent across the whole economy and the construction sector which experienced 18% inflation from August 2021 to August 2022.