HS2 finance chief quits over unauthorised redundancy payouts
The man in charge of finances at the company delivering the £56bn HS2 high speed rail network is to resign after the national spending watchdog revealed evidence of unauthorised redundancy payouts worth almost £2m.
Chief Financial Officer, Steve Allen, will leave his role with the company at the end of the financial year.
The payouts were made to staff in London who were unwilling to relocate when the company moved its headquarters to Birmingham.
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