Former Transport Minister Calls on Grayling to Scrap “Budget Busting HS2” Three former Government Ministers have heaped pressure on the under-fire HS2 project in the House of Commons today (14th...
HS2 Property Cost Forecast at Five Times the Original Estimate, FOI Shows A Freedom of Information Response from HS2 Ltd forecasts that the final total for the cost of land and...
DfT Admit They Don’t Know How Much Has Been Spent on HS2 Property, as Lawsuit Looms The Department for Transport has stated that it does not hold any record of how much has been spent...
An Ivory Tower for a White Elephant. How Incompetent were HS2 Ltd to not see this Coming? Whilst there have been many tales of the profligacy and waste at HS2 Ltd, especially those that focus on...
Boss refuses to reveal ‘cost gap’ of ‘unaffordable’ HS2 Mark Thurston, the boss of HS2 Ltd has refused to admit how far over budget the project is running,...
Secret Government Report says “Fundamentally Flawed” HS2 Could go 60% Over-Budget. A secret report produced by the Governments’ Infrastructure and Projects Authority months before HS2 got its’ final approval in...
Over half MPs abstain on HS2 vote Stop HS2 commented following the second reading on the HS2 Phase 2a Bill. Penny Gaines, chair of Stop HS2,...
Unauthorised redundancy payments a shocking waste of taxpayers’ money Following on from their investigation into HS2 Ltd’s accounts, the Public Accounts Committee have called unauthorised payments to staff...
Following a Government audit, Stop HS2 accuse HS2 Ltd of “running their own gravy train with their snouts in the trough of taxpayers’ money” An internal government audit into HS2 Ltd redundancy schemes which involved payouts significantly higher than allowed by the Department...
HS2’s CFO departs smelling of roses Earlier this year, the National Audit Office uncovered a number of unauthorised redundancy payments made by HS2 Ltd to...