High Speed 2 Railway Line
(asked on 11th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of High Speed Two on the economies of the (a) Midlands and (b) North of England.
This question was answered on 11th October 2018
HS2 will transform the UK economy with construction supporting up to 30,000 new jobs, as set out in the HS2 Skills, Employment and Education Strategy, launched last month. 70 percent of construction jobs supported over the entire HS2 programme will be outside of London. It will directly link 8 of the UK’s 10 largest cities and provide a step change in the country’s railway capacity.