Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 18
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Cancellation of HS2 Phase 2 impacts other interdependent projects, lacking business cases.
Conclusion
We asked the Department about the impact of cancelling HS2 Phases 2 on other projects that would have had existing business cases dependent in part on Phases 2a or 2b. The Department highlighted the interdependency between 2b and Northern Powerhouse Rail and said that it would be some time before it had a business case for the revised scope of that. It said that while some of the programmes within Network North were well established, it did not yet have a business case for some of the others.38
Government Response
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