High Speed 2 has insisted that civils work on the £42.6bn rail programme will start on time in 2018 despite a respected industry forecast that it would be delayed by at least two years. HS2 reacted to the Construction Products Association's prediction that work would not begin on the civils packages until 2020 by saying it was "confident that there would be spades in the ground by 2017", with main civils work to begin by 2018. Last week, the CPA released its summer industry forecast, in which it said it did not anticipate main civil works beginning for at least five years due to "concerns regarding planning and financing".
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