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HS2 Euston exemplifies department's failure to learn from past major rail projects
Recommendation
The previous Public Accounts Committee also concluded in its 2023 report on HS2 Euston that it was another example of the Department making the same mistakes and failing to learn lessons from its management of other major rail programmes, highlighting the need for more work on cost estimation, the treatment of contingency and managing the integration of complex projects.81 78 Committee of Public Accounts, High Speed 2: Spring 2020 update, Third Report of Session 2019–21, HC 84, 17 May 2020 79 Committee of Public Accounts, HS2 and Euston, Tenth Report of Session 2023–24, HC 67, 7 February 2024 80 Committee of Public Accounts, High Speed 2: Spring 2020 update, Third Report of Session 2019–21, HC 84, 17 May 2020; 81 Committee of Public Accounts, HS2 Euston, Sixty–third Report of Session 2022–23, HC 1004, 7 July 2023 25
Government Response
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Source
Committee
Public Accounts Committee
Report
10th Report - HS2: Update following the Northern leg cancellation
28 Feb 2025
HC 357
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age
1.5 yrs
Report published
28 Feb 2025