Over budget HS2 contractors “running their own gravy train”, with average 86% overspend. Whilst the budget for professional services contracts on Phase 1 of HS2 was originally set at £101m, the total...
HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee – The First Meeting Yesterday, the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee had their first public meeting. They can have been left with no doubt...
HS2 committee meet today The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill Select Committee are meeting today to hear representations on its...
Everyone impacted by HS2 must get on with petitioning, now. The Stop HS2 campaign is calling on everyone who cares about the impact of HS2 to petition against the...
Sickeningly ill-informed MPs vote through HS2 Hybrid Bill, as Boris talks bollocks, again. A three-line whip from the Government benches, coupled with a rather apathetic support from Labour, meant that the second...
HS2 vote – whatever happens today , the fight won’t be over. Hundreds of Stop HS2 campaigners will be descending on Parliament today to call on MPs to vote against the...
Stop HS2 newsletter – demo 28th April This is the newsletter we sent to our subscribers last week – if you would like them emailed to...
Government will mislead Parliament if it does not publish secret HS2 reports before vote. While the Information Commission has announced a legal challenge against a Government decision to block the release of secret...
‘Disgraceful Spin’ as HS2 Compensation Consultation concludes “Let’s have another consultation.” The Government has decided to bury bad news today, announcing a new proposal for HS2 compensation on the same...
HS2 Environmental Statement – More people leave form blank than support HS2. Two days after the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee trashed the environmental credentials of HS2, the Independent Assessors of...