The government has already spent over £3m on legal fees for High Speed 23 – even though construction work will not get underway until 2017.

In a Freedom of Information Act response, the Department for Transport said it had spent £1.3m each with lawyers Winckworth Sherwood and Eversheds up to December 2013.

The firms advised on and prepared elements of the hybrid Bill for HS2 which was published on 25 November 2013.

Reported by Construction News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.