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HS2 Ltd EDI annual report 2019 to 2020

This report follows a significant milestone for HS2. In April 2020, Phase One of the Project received Notice to Proceed – which places HS2 as one of the cornerstones to the UK’s economic recovery, creating jobs and opportunities all over the country.

HS2 will be a world-class feat in British engineering and we’re applying that same standard of excellence in our approach to EDI and the way we recruit our workforce and support their career progression. Bringing in people from different backgrounds, with different histories and different ways of doing things gives us a wider range of ideas and a greater insight into what is needed to deliver HS2. Crucially, with a skills shortage in our sector, doing this will also help establish a greater and more sustainable talent pipeline into, and beyond, the next decade.

In this report, we detail our EDI work and outcomes across the themes set out in our EDI Strategy:

• workforce;
• design and operations;
• community engagement; and
• supply chain.