BY NUMBERS, PROJECT’S SOARING BILL
£1.1bn original budget for land and property along London to Birmingham leg
£2.05bn what has been spent already
745 properties that have been purchased so far
819 offices, shops, farms and houses still to buy
£1bn estimated cost of new Old Oak Common station
£56bn HS2’s official budget, up from initial £34bn
£104bn more likely cost, as estimated by rail consultant Michael Byng
318 HS2 employees paid at least £100,000 – almost a quarter of the project’s workforce
£602,000 annual pay package of HS2 chief executive Mark Thurston