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HS2: Government ministers sat on critical report by Department for Transport

4 January 2014

The report, by the accountants KPMG, has been repeatedly quoted by ministers - including the Chancellor, George Osborne - to defend their £43 billion scheme... The KPMG research has already been substantially discredited, with one former member of the Government's HS2 advisory panel, Prof Henry Overman, saying it was ''technically wrong'' and ''essentially made up''.

This article was published online by the Telegraph on January 4, 2014
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Related publications
HS2: assessing the costs and benefits, Henry Overman. Article in CentrePiece 16 (3) Winter 2012


Related links
Henry Overman webpage
SERC Programme website

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