A former worker on HS2 railway project who lost his job after accusing bosses of disguising the true price of the long-delayed railway project has been awarded nearly 320,000 by a tribunal.
Project risk management practitioner Stephen Cresswell told an employment tribunal in Croydon that his contract was not renewed at High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd in 2022 after he repeatedly warned that the rail link’s costs were being “actively misrepresented”.
Among his allegations was that he was told by one executive to “disregard” his forecasts of a “significant” increase in the cost of the project, which was predicted to be 30bn in 2010 prices when it was first announced by ministers.
Cresswell worked briefly for HS2 in 2014 and then returned from 2018 until 2022, at which point the state-owned company did not renew his contract. His departure came a few months after he wrote to colleagues alleging that figures were being manipulated to deceive politicians.
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Claiming his contract was not renewed because he was a whistleblower, Cresswell filed a claim against HS2 at the employment tribunal.
The company has said an internal investigation into Cresswell’s concerns found no evidence of fraud or illegal activity. But an internal email sent to Cresswell last August, and seen by the Financial...
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