In our 2020 report we recommended that the Department publish regular reports on progress to Parliament, including a realistic appraisal of the programme’s likelihood of delivering to budget and schedule.18 HS2 Ltd and the Department reported £0.8 billion in cost pressures in their most recent update to Parliament in March 2021.19 We therefore asked what they were doing to finalise and manage cost pressures to ensure that the programme kept within its revised budgets. HS2 Ltd told us that the...

In our 2020 report we recommended that the Department publish regular reports on progress to Parliament, including a realistic appraisal of the programme’s likelihood of delivering to budget and schedule.18 HS2 Ltd and the Department reported £0.8 billion in cost pressures in their most recent update to Parliament in March 2021.19 We therefore asked what they were doing to finalise and manage cost pressures to ensure that the programme kept within its revised budgets. HS2 Ltd told us that these cost pressures were from three areas: Euston station; enabling works, including additional costs from the diversion of utilities; and, civil construct Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Response status: under_consideration