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Britain’s biggest construction project, HS2, is helping the UK’s small business community to thrive. New figures show HS2’s civils contractors doubled their total spend with SMEs – companies with 250 or fewer employees - in 2022/23 when compared to the previous financial year.

• HS2 and its construction partners continue their apprenticeship recruitment drive
• Applications open this week for jobs based in Birmingham, Milton Keynes and London

HS2 Ltd today (31 January 2024) confirmed the shortlisted bidders to operate and maintain the assets required for the new mass transit system at Interchange station in Solihull.

• Recruitment opens today for over 30 graduate jobs
• Opportunities based in Birmingham, Milton Keynes and London
• Two-year placements span nine different career pathways

• HS2 starts 2024 with a major milestone as five year station construction programme begins in central Birmingham
• Birmingham Curzon Street station will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the 19th Century
• Hundreds of jobs will be created during the build, including apprenticeships and opportunities for unemployed people
• Official start of construction photos from an event on site on Wednesday 24 January - https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/wvxws3hc5sxstxqb7xfpcbv  
• CGI images of the station; Animated flythrough of the station; Aerial footage of the site

• HS2’s 847 tonne tunnel boring machine breaks through into Old Oak Common Station box
• The 853-metre logistics tunnel will support the construction of HS2’s Euston tunnel
• Video of the breakthrough available here: https://youtu.be/vad8bbYie8U