How has the cost of HS2 grown since the scheme was announced?
Politics explained: High-speed rail link follows in line of over-budget infrastructure projects from the Channel Tunnel to the Millennium Dome
Today’s devastating parliamentary report on HS2 is one of the loudest declarations yet of MPs’ unhappiness with the way the government is handling its biggest infrastructure project.
But there is no prospect of it halting work on the rail link, after the government gave the green light for construction work to begin in April.
What it will do – at least its authors hope – is put ministers and officials’ feet to the fire on its ever burgeoning costs.
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