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MPs attack HS2’s ‘fragile numbers and old data’

20 September 2013
 

The House of Commons public accounts committee has launched another strongly-worded attack on the Government’s high-speed rail plans. 

The MPs say the business case for HS2 has so far been built on “fragile numbers, out-of-date data and assumptions, which do not reflect real life”.

“The pattern so far has been for costs to increase and benefits to decrease,” it adds. “The Department has yet to demonstrate that this is the best way to spend £50bn on...

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