Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 29
8th Report - Northern Powerhouse Rail
Published 1 Jul 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Treasury’s Northern Growth Envoy emphasised that their approach with local areas was about more than just transport and stations, but “placemaking”.63 MHCLG also set out that it was trialling ‘place-based business cases’, which consider how a set of interventions come together in a given place. Liverpool is one of its pilot places, in which it told us that there is a “huge regeneration opportunity” around Liverpool Central train station including transport, housing, regeneration and public services.64
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).