We challenged the Department over the necessity and added risk of establishing an additional delivery body to oversee the works at Euston and its surroundings. The Department recognised that setting up new organisations is far more complex and difficult than is often thought, and that its experience with HS2 Ltd demonstrates that it is difficult to set up high–functioning new organisations delivering extremely complex infrastructure. However, the Department told us that the task at Euston is quite different to HS2 Ltd’s core mission of building a railway. The Department explained that the challenge at Euston is more complex, with more moving parts and different opportunities within it, such as attracting private investment, which is a different skill set and poses a different set of technical challenges.58