CEP News: i (the paper for today): GBP15bn HS2 benefit has no 'statistical basis', MPs told

i (the paper for today):
GBP15bn HS2 benefit has no 'statistical basis', MPs told

6 November 2013

''I don't think the statistical work [in the KPMG report] is reliable. There are problems with the numbers they have generated.'' Henry Overman, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, said that there was ''no statistical basis'' for the KPMG £15bn annual benefit figure.

The article was published in i (the paper for today) 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

i (the paper for today):GBP15bn HS2 benefit has no 'statistical basis', MPs told

i (the paper for today):
GBP15bn HS2 benefit has no 'statistical basis', MPs told