Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 17
8th Report - Northern Powerhouse Rail
Published 1 Jul 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
However, the NAO also set out that the government views Northern Powerhouse Rail as a programme of different projects rather than one single mega-project.36 In oral evidence, the Department told us Northern Powerhouse Rail was “in effect [ … ] a mega-programme”.37 In written evidence, Transport for the North described the programme as a series of discrete investments, which would realise benefits “greater than the sum of its parts” when delivered as a co-ordinated programme.38
From: Public Accounts Committee, 8th Report - Northern Powerhouse Rail (HC 97), 1 July 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 September 2026 (deadline 1 September 2026).