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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 discr... Read more...
04 January 2014
Lord Heseltine has come out fighting in favour of the HS2 high speed rail project. In a speech on Tuesday, the former Conservative Cabinet minister said supporting HS2 is as much an act of faith as a reliance on figures,... Read more...
12 November 2013
However, concerns about the KPMG report, surfaced when the FT revealed misgivings about it among some of the government's own advisers. Dan Graham, a professor of statistical modelling at Imperial College London, told th... Read more...
06 November 2013
Calculations used by ministers to justify the controversial £50billion high-speed rail scheme were 'essentially made up', a former Government adviser told Treasury watchdogs yesterday. Professor Henry Overman was one of... Read more...
''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 tha... Read more...
£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 ... Read more...
The £50billion HS2 scheme were ''essentially made up'' a former member of Whitehall's high speed rail advisory panel has told MPs. Henry Overman, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics said he... Read more...
...to Birmingham and to Manchester and Leeds. The Department for Transport say ultimately the line would reduce journey times to Edinburgh and Glasgow by an hour. Professor Henry Overman from the London School of Economi... Read more...
19 October 2013