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Contractors don’t accept DfT’s HS2 cost estimate, says peer

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Andrew Forster
27 April 2018
Berkeley: engineering difficulties emerging on the route
Berkeley: engineering difficulties emerging on the route
Grayling: HS2 Ltd’s cost estimates not “significantly at odds” with contractors
Grayling: HS2 Ltd’s cost estimates not “significantly at odds” with contractors

 

The first phase of HS2 cannot be built for the Government’s £24.3bn budget envelope or completed by the proposed opening date of 2026, according to some contractors, a peer has claimed.   

Labour peer Lord Berkeley voices his concerns in a letter to transport secretary Chris Grayling sent last week. 

“The problems raised by the scope and programming of the enabling works contracts has exposed strong disagreements between HS2 Ltd and its contractors as well as...

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