In the 2024 Autumn Budget, the government confirmed that HS2 would terminate at Euston, announcing that it would fund the work to tunnel from Old Oak Common in west London to Euston.61 The previous Public Accounts 57 Qq 78–80 58 Q 47 59 Ibid 60 Qq 45–46 61 HM Treasury, Autumn Budget 2024, 30 October 2024. 20 Committee recommended that a decision on tunnelling was needed urgently to avoid incurring much greater costs from stopping and restarting work.62 The Department was unable to tell us, however, when the station will be completed and in operation.63 In the interim however, when it expects HS2 services to begin operating sometime between 2029 and 2033, trains will terminate at Old Oak Common.64