CEOs warn HS2 changes would hit supply chain

摘要

Balfour Beatty's Leo Quinn, Kier's Andrew Davies and Sir Robert McAlpine's Paul Hamer are among 25 industry leaders who have written to prime minister Boris Johnson calling for HS2 to be backed. The letter, also signed by the chief executives of Mace, Bam Nuttall and Morgan Sindall, among others, highlighted the impact of the London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds rail project on jobs and investment in the Midlands and North of England. The letter was a bid "to re-emphasise the important and hugely positive benefits" of delivering HS2 in its entirety, it said, adding that HS2 would help to "redefine the construction and infrastructure industry itself". It claimed that a by-product of delivering HS2 would be the development of offsite skills.