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High Speed 2 Line

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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 907879, tabled on 2 March 2015

Question

David Mowat
Conservative
Warrington South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the benefit cost ratio of the High Speed 2 Wigan spur.

Answer

Mr Robert Goodwill
Conservative
Scarborough and Whitby
Commons

Answered on

5 March 2015

The Department has not estimated the case for the western leg of the Y-shaped route for High Speed 2 without the connection to the West Coast Main Line north of Manchester. However, preliminary analysis undertaken by HS2 Ltd suggested that this section of the line is likely to provide benefits of the order of £1.2 billion, revenue of about £600 million, and is likely to offer very high value for money.

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