High Speed 2 Line: Redundancy

(asked on 6th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to cancel Phase 2 of HS2 on jobs at (a) the Alstom site in Derby and (b) around the country.


Answered by
Huw Merriman Portrait
Huw Merriman
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 14th December 2023

(a) Alstom are in a JV with Hitachi to build the HS2 rolling stock for phase 1 only and did not have a contract for any works on phase 2 of HS2.

(b) The large majority of jobs on the programme are currently working on the delivery of Phase 1 between Birmingham and London. The new investment plans outlined in Network North will provide significant opportunities for contractual work around the country, providing job opportunities in a number of sectors across the range of projects in the delivery pipeline.

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