Barnett costs mean billions more will have to go on the HS2 bill. Following the discovery last week that HS2 Ltd had decided to keep the estimated running costs of the project...
HS2 Ltd fiddle the figures again, ignoring their own forecast by saying electricity prices never go up. Deep within documents buried by HS2 Ltd, Stop HS2 has found that HS2 Ltd have kept the projected running...
Use of ‘War Veto’ to block publication of HS2 reports is illegal, say Stop HS2. Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin has today exercised a veto on publication of a report pertaining to...
HS2 media management tries to hide extra consultation extension under legal ruling HS2 Ltd have chosen to say they will comply will a ruling from the House of Lords Standing Orders...
Supreme Court rules that “all aspects of the HS2 project remain open to debate” The Supreme Court today (22nd Jan 2014) rejected anti-HS2 campaigners’ appeal that the Government should comply with the Strategic...
Lords demand HS2 consultation should be extended for second time in week, with 27th Feb deadline. The House of Lords Standing Orders Committee has ruled that the HS2 Phase 1 Environmental Statement Consultation should be...
HS2 bosses ‘running their own gravy train’ as jobs for the boys merry-go-round nets new chair £750k Simon Kirby will follow Sir David Higgins in joining HS2 Ltd from Network Rail in June, before taking over...
MPs rule that HS2 consultation has to be extended, following 877 ‘lost pages’. A committee of MPs has ruled that the current consultation surrounding Phase 1 of the HS2 route must be...
‘More spin and more debt’ is the clear message from new HS2 Chair. On what was surely had been orchestrated to be a set piece ‘good news’ day for HS2 as part...
HS2 Ltd blow £302m on contractors, splurging £170m in just 10 months. A study, undertaken by the Tax Payers Alliance, of payments from HS2 Ltd made to external agencies...