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Cancel HS2 and use some or all the money to fund flood prevention & the NHS.

Submitted on Saturday 28th March 2020

Rejected on Friday 15th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Cancel HS2 and use some or all the money to fund flood prevention & the NHS.

Petition Details

Cancel HS2 and use some or all the money to fund flood prevention measures and the NHS.

Additional Information

The estimates for HS2 vary from £107000000000 to £170000000000 (107 to 170 billion). This gross amount of money is to be spent just to get people to London 20 minutes quicker and has very questionable business benefits.

Cancel HS2 and use some or a that money to build flood barriers, flood plains/drainage and properly fund the NHS so it can cope with pandemics as well as the everyday work it does


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/311642

If you would like HS2 to be cancelled and its budget to be used specifically for flood prevention, you could start a new petition calling for this.

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