High Speed 2 Railway Line
(asked on 1st December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the benefit-cost ratio for the High Speed 2 Wigan spur.
This question was answered on 4th December 2014
The Department has not estimated the case for the western leg of the Y-shaped route for High Speed 2 without the Wigan Spur. However, preliminary analysis undertaken by HS2 Ltd suggested that this section of the line is likely to provide benefits of the order of £1.2 billion, revenue of about £600 million, and is likely to offer very high value for money.