Transport Select Committee: Questioning Allan Cook, Chair of HS2

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In this week’s Transport Select Committee session, we questioned Allan Cook, the chair of High Speed 2 (HS2), on the progress of the project and discussed potential barriers it faces.

I asked him whether we had lost our bottle when it came to delivering large, long-term infrastructure projects in this country. I received an impassioned response about the benefits of this ambitious programme.

Watch the exchange here: https://goo.gl/zRVkKC

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