Date: 31/12/2021

Only a quarter of the government officials responsible for cancelling HS2 to Yorkshire and downgrading plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) actually live in the north of England and rely on the regions sub-par trains. Of the 24 officials in the Department for Transport (DfT) responsible for writing the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP), just six live in the north, the DfT admitted in response to a freedom of information (FoI) request.

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Majority of officials who downgraded northern rail plans dont live there

The Guardian

Only a quarter of those who wrote Integrated Rail Plan rely on north of Englands sub-par services

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Tags: x HS2 x Northern Powerhouse Rail x Department for Transport