HS2 contracts rushed into while client needed to make more use of ‘negotiating levers’ such as retendering jobs, official review finds

By Dave Rogers2025-06-20T10:40:00

Report by James Stewart adds much of inflation on jobs should be risk ‘retained by government’

HS2 Ltd should have created ways to make it easier to terminate under-performing contractors or retender contracts that were missing key milestones, a new report into the project has said.

A report by James Stewart, former chief executive of New Labour PFI quango Partnerships UK and now chair of infrastructure consultant Agilia, was published on the same day the government confirmed another delay to the scheme.

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