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High Speed 2 Line: Costs

Asked by Laurence TurnerLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 14 October 2025UIN 77840

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 2.18 of the National Audit Office report entitled High Speed Two: A progress update, published on 24 January 2020, whether HS2 Limited has updated its indicative estimate that the co

Answered by Simon Lightwood

HS2 Ltd has not updated this figure. The estimate was provided to the National Audit Office in late 2019 – at that time, HS2 Ltd’s cost estimates were in 2015 prices.

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