MPs ‘sceptical’ that private sector will step in to fund HS2’s £6bn Euston scheme

By Daniel Gayne2025-02-28T13:11:00

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Rail scheme has become a ‘reputational risk’ to UK, public accounts committee says

A parliamentary watchdog committee has expressed doubts about the government’s ability to build its planned Euston terminus for HS2 using private money.

The public accounts committee (PAC), made up of backbench MPs, published a major review of the delivery of the HS2 project today, which criricised the Department for Transport and its delivery body for creating “a casebook example of how not to run a major project”.

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