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High Speed 2 Line

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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 31957, tabled on 21 March 2016

Question

Mrs Cheryl Gillan
Conservative
Chesham and Amersham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much EU funding has been provided for ground investigations related to High Speed 2.

Answer

Mr Robert Goodwill
Conservative
Scarborough and Whitby
Commons

Answered on

24 March 2016

The Department for Transport was awarded €39.2 million for HS2 under the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility to fund Ground Investigation works for Phase 1 of the High Speed 2 Programme. The EU has agreed to provide this funding in stages between 2015 and 2019.

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