PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
High Speed 2 Line (17 September 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many jobs his Department expects to be created by the HS2 project in (a) Bradford, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) the UK.
Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour)
Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour)
Answer
HS2 will support up to 100,000 jobs around HS2 stations when operational.The balance of benefits will be in the Midlands and North; seventy per cent of jobs supported by HS2 are expected to be outside London, including an estimated 13,000 – 20,000 jobs around Leeds station. HS2 will support nearly 25,000 jobs during construction and 3,100 permanent jobs in operations and maintenance once it is open.
Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
14 October 2015
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