Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

High Speed 2: 2022 Spring Update

Status: Closed Opened: 22 Mar 2022 Closed: 3 Feb 2023
Inquiry scopeThe Committee has previously reported, following its HS2 inquiry updates in 2020 and 2021, that the High-Speed 2 rail project was “badly off course” with project managers “blindsided by contact with reality” and raised serious concerns about the official account that had been provided to the Committee, over time, of the project’s health. The Committee will question Bernadette Kelly, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport and Mark Thurston, Chief Executive of HS2 Ltd, on latest progress, costs and timing estimates for the whole remaining programme. If you have evidence on the current state of the HS2 programme please submit it here by 6pm on Monday 9 May 2022.

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

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Date Session and witnesses Source
16 May 2022
HS2 2022 Spring Update
Bernadette Kelly · Department for Transport, Clive Maxwell · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Mark Thurston · HS2 Ltd
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Who gave evidence

3 witnesses

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WitnessOrganisationSessions
Bernadette Kelly · Permanent Secretary Department for Transport 1
Clive Maxwell · Second Permanent Secretary Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 1
Mark Thurston · Chief Executive HS2 Ltd 1

Correspondence

3 letters

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