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Old 07-10-2023, 16:57   #49
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Re: HS2 and the future of British railways

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I believe the point was they would have screwed it up just as badly if the actual government had been another party ?
I believed the point was that OB was blaming Civil Servants, when it’s not run by Civil Servants…

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but it’s the civil servants whose responsibility it is to get the specification for the contract right and to set performance measures, and it is also their job to ensure those performance measures (which will include monitoring costs and the progress of the project) are met. This is what appears to have gone badly wrong.
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