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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HS2 spending is “out of control”, Berkeley tells Ridge on Sunday
Lord Berkeley talks to Sky News’ Sophie Ridge about his report into HS2:
Parliament was misled into supporting HS2 says Lord Berkeley, appointed by the government as Deputy Chair of official report reviewing the project. The former Chair of Railfreight was so dissolusioned with the official report into HS2 that he’s produced his own, and says taxpayers are set to lose £40bn.
Serious Fraud Office wants details on HS2 compensation practices, as possession orders escalate.
Back in March, we pointed out that the actions of HS2 Ltd in relation to how they have dealt...
Commons Library Alters Briefing to Prove £65bn HS2 Cost Estimate Came From Government.
A briefing paper written for the House of Commons Library has been edited following accusations from the Department for...
Government misleads public as HS2 has been £9bn over-budget for 4 years, says Commons report.
A briefing paper written for the House of Commons Library has revealed that at the time of the 2015...
Government reports on HS2 are still too secret to let HS2 Ltd see them.
Two years ago, a request made under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that reports from the Major Projects...
HS2 at ‘high risk of collapse’
It will come of no surprise to regular readers of this website to know that a new report on...
The HS2 NAO report – The only ‘other’ news story on Thursday
This week, if you’ve been living in a cave and failed to spot it, the political fallout following Brexit has dominated the news. In fact ‘dominated’ is rather an understatement, as whilst there has been sport and weather, most days there hasn’t been any other news reported at all by most broadcasters.
However, on the 1pm news on Thursday there was one other story that made it through, the latest National Audit Office report on HS2:
Public Accounts Committee say HS1 failure could be repeated with HS2
Today (Weds 20th Jan 2016) the Public Accounts Committee have published a report into the sell-off of HS1. They...
Stop HS2 joins the fight against weakening of the FOI Act
Over the last five years, the Stop HS2 campaign has made great use of the Freedom of Information Act...