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HS2 is Britain’s new high-speed railway connecting London and Birmingham. Our British-built bullet trains will create capacity, or space, on the congested network, providing faster, zero carbon journeys between our two largest cities. Services will continue to Manchester, the North West and Scotland using the conventional railway network, cutting journey times.

HS2 Ltd has been established by the Department for Transport (DfT) to develop, build and bring into service High Speed Two (HS2), a high-speed railway linking London and the West Midlands, allowing services to connect to the existing rail network to serve destinations further north. HS2 Ltd is responsible for designing, constructing and managing HS2’s infrastructure, with a connection to the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

The executive team

The HS2 Ltd Board

The role of the HS2 Ltd Board is to:

• Ensure effective governance of the company so that the company makes decisions at the right time and effectively manages risk.
• Shape, challenge and direct the agenda for the company delivering stated priorities.
• Monitor performance and risk, making choices (or recommendations to ministers) on our priorities’ ‘risk appetite’ (the amount and type of risk we are willing to take in order to meet our strategic objectives).
• Oversee healthy relations with our stakeholders and commercial partners.

The HS2 Ltd Board members typically meet on a monthly basis.

Corporate reports, board minutes and audit committee minutes can be found on the HS2 section of GOV.UK. This will continue in line with government policy on publishing corporate information.

HS2 Ltd Board minutes and audit committee minutes

Corporate reports