We asked the Department if Ministers had looked at the impact on businesses when they made the decision to pause construction. The Department told us that the decisions Ministers were trying to make were about trying to protect the supply chain as far as they could and that this was an important part of the advice that was being given to Ministers as they considered options.30 HS2 Ltd told us that it had been working with the Department to develop various funding scenarios and best options fo...

We asked the Department if Ministers had looked at the impact on businesses when they made the decision to pause construction. The Department told us that the decisions Ministers were trying to make were about trying to protect the supply chain as far as they could and that this was an important part of the advice that was being given to Ministers as they considered options.30 HS2 Ltd told us that it had been working with the Department to develop various funding scenarios and best options for the HS2 programme since November last year but, with the decisions now made, it needs to determine the full extent of the impact of the pause on the co Type: conclusion | Number: 13 | Response status: not_accepted Government response: 3.1 The government disagrees with the Committee’s recommendation. 3.2 The department did consider the projected costs of pausing the work but was not in a position to continue even had it wished to give the scale of the affordability pressure. It is working with H