Question follow-through · 7650
High Speed 2 Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the development of phase 1 of HS2.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 10 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the development of phase 1 of HS2.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
As reported in the last HS2 report to Parliament published in November 2023, HS2 Ltd indicated that its projected cost to deliver Phase 1 would significantly exceed the current Funding Envelope of £44.6 billion (2019 prices). Following the significant sco...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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