Extra design work digs £200m deeper into HS2 contigency

The cost of extra design work on HS2 main work contracts has eaten £200m into contingency funding for the project in the last six months.
The lastest progress report on the mega project reveals that HS2 has had to dig deeper into its £5bn contingency funds.
Significant amounts of the original design work on HS2’s Euston station have been ditched after the decision was taken for the station to be scaled back from 11 to 10 platforms.
HS2 chiefs are now projecting around £1.