Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 5942

Tabled: 2 June 2026
Named Day

Question

Wendy Morton

ConservativeAldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of (a) the minimum, (b) the expected and (c) the maximum savings arising from reducing the design speed of HS2 from 360 km/h to 320 km/h; how those savings have been calculated; and w