HS2 to spend £100m shutting sites where work never started

HS2 will need to spend £100m and take three years closing down sites for the cancelled Phase 2 leg despite construction never starting on them.
The costs are revealed in a National Audit Office report into the response to last October’s decision by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to can Phase 2 connecting Birmingham with Leeds and Manchester.
The report states: “HS2 Ltd needs to efficiently and safely decommission and close down Phase 2 construction sites.“Although no s