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High Speed 2: Progress at Summer 2021

Inquiry

One year ago the Public Accounts Committee reported that the High-Speed 2 rail project was “badly off course” with project managers “blindsided by contact with reality”, as it raised serious concerns about the official account that had been provided to the Committee, over time, of the project’s health. 

The Committee is now recalling senior officials at the Department for Transport and executives at HS2 Ltd, as well as representatives of construction and local authority stakeholder groups.

If you have new evidence that has not previously been submitted on:

  • How the HS2 programme is progressing
  • HS2 Ltd and the Department’s readiness to move into construction of Phase One 
  • How HS2 Ltd and the Department are managing other parts of the programme

- please submit it here by 6pm on Thursday 17 June 2021.

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Past events

Thursday 24 June 2021
9:15am Private
10:00am Public
High Speed 2: Progress at Summer 2021 - Oral evidence 24 June 2021
10:00am
  • Bernadette Kelly (Permanent Secretary at Department for Transport)
  • Clive Maxwell (Director General for High Speed Rail at Department for Transport)
  • Mark Thurston (Chief Executive at HS2 Ltd)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Monday 21 June 2021
1:15pm Private
2:30pm Public
High Speed 2: Progress at Summer 2021 - Oral evidence 21 June 2021
2:30pm
  • Sir Mark Worthington (Independent Construction Commissioner at HS2 Ltd)
  • Sir John Armitt (Chair at National Infrastructure Commission)
  • Craig Wakeman (Head of Transport Implementation and Lead HS2 Manager at West Midlands Combined Authority)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Contact us

  • Email: pubaccom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8480 (strictly media enquiries only – contact us via our email for general enquiries)
  • Address: Public Accounts Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA