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Committee Material Published 22 Sep 2021 ↗ View on Parliament

The Department has made little progress on the design and delivery at Euston since we last reported, and we remain concerned that time is running out. Euston station is a key element of the programme both as the London terminus for High Speed 2 and a link to existing railway network and London Underground. We raised concerns over the lack of clarity of the design and delivery of Euston station in our May 2020 report, but the Department has made no final decisions 6 HS2 Summer 2021 since then....

The Department has made little progress on the design and delivery at Euston since we last reported, and we remain concerned that time is running out. Euston station is a key element of the programme both as the London terminus for High Speed 2 and a link to existing railway network and London Underground. We raised concerns over the lack of clarity of the design and delivery of Euston station in our May 2020 report, but the Department has made no final decisions 6 HS2 Summer 2021 since then. The redevelopment of Euston station is currently estimated to cost £2.6 billion. Despite HS2 Ltd telling us last year that the design of the station was Type: recommendation | Number: 2 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 2.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Recommendation implemented 2.2 In the third HS2 6-monthly report to Parliament, the department sets out the decision to move to a smaller, simpler 10-platform design (instead of an 11-platfor