HS2 ‘a casebook example of how not to run a major project’, MPs say

The public accounts committee said it was unacceptable that a decade after the project was greenlit, its cost and completion date were still not known. Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA

HS2 has become “a casebook example of how not to run a major project”, according to the latest scathing report on the high-speed rail line from MPs on the public accounts committee (PAC).

The PAC lambasted the Department for Transport (DfT) and HS2 Ltd for failing to work together effectively, and told them not to waste the opportunity to get a grip on costs during the project’s latest “reset”.