Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government who were the accounting officers responsible for HS2 at (1) the Department for Transport, and (2) HS2 Ltd, for the period from 1 January 2009 to the present.

The Accounting Officers at the Department for Transport and Chief Executives at HS2 Ltd from 1 January 2009 to the present are as follows:

HS2 Ltd

• Alison Munro CBE (January 2009 – September 2014)
• Simon Kirby (September 2014 – December 2016)
• Roy Hill (December 2016 – March 2017)
• Mark Thurston (March 2017 – September 2023)
• Sir Jonathan Thompson (September 2023 - Present)

DfT

• Sir Robert Devereux KCB (2007 - December 2011)
• Dame Linda Margaret Homer DCB (December 2011 – March 2012)
• Sir Philip McDougall Rutnam KCB (March 2012 – April 2017)
• Dame Bernadette Kelly DCB (April 2017 – Present)