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MPs ‘sceptical’ that private investors will back £6bn HS2 Euston scheme

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Rail scheme has become a ‘reputational risk’ to UK, public accounts committee says

A parliamentary watchdog committee has expressed doubts about the government’s ability to build its planned Euston terminus for HS2 using private money.

The public accounts committee (PAC), made up of backbench MPs, published a major review of the delivery of the HS2 project today, which criricised the Department for Transport and its delivery body for creating “a casebook example of how not to run a major project”.

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