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Keep up to dateBy Jordan Marshall2020-01-29T06:00:00
Firms paid over £360m in the three months after government ordered review of scheme
Construction firms earned around £4m a day from work on HS2 during the three months after the scheme was put under review last summer.
The National Audit Office revealed last week that £7.2bn was spent on HS2 up to April 2019. But Building can reveal that at least £363m was paid to construction firms in August, September and October following the government’s decision to ask Douglas Oakervee to lead an independent review of the project.
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