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Experts pour cold water on HS2 benefits

6 November 2013

£15bn a year for the British economy, and Treasury select committee chair Andrew Tyrie said afterwards that the claim ''has no firm statistical foundation''. Henry Overman, a professor at the London School of Economics who formerly advised the government on HS2, said KPMG, which provided the forecast, ''applied this procedure which is essentially made up''.

This article was published in City AM on November 6, 2013
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Related publications
HS2: assessing the costs and benefits, Henry Overman. Article in CentrePiece Volume 16, Issue 3, Winter 2012

Related links
Henry Overman webpage
Globalisation Programme webpage
SERC website

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