MPs Confirm Parliament & Public Consistently Lied to Over Cost of HS2
A damning report from the Public Accounts Committee has today concluded that HS2 Ltd and the Department for Transport...
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Morgan and Ghani to appear in front of the Lords on Tuesday
On Tuesday, the Lords Economics Affairs Committee will be holding an oral evidence session on HS2. This is a...
National Audit Office report shows HS2 property cost estimate has trebled.
Today, the National Audit Office has published a report into HS2 buying land and property on Phase 1 of...
HS2 in Parliament Twice This Week, With More to Come.
This week, HS2 is due to come up in Parliament twice. On Wednesday, Stone MP Bill Cash has organised...
At least one MP was paying attention….
One day a couple of years ago, the chair of the HS2 Phase 1 Hybrid Bill committee Robert (now...
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 or GWR modernisation?
One of the problems with HS2 is the huge cost, and whether spending £55 billion on one railway is...
HS2 Will be a Disaster, but Politicians Lack the Bottle to Give it the Boot
This article was first published in the Huffington Post. Last week, when a group of Conservative backbenchers took a...
HS2 Construction is Two Years Late, No Matter What HS2 Ltd Say.
Residents along the route of HS2 have been told that major construction is now only planned to commence in...