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...Sir Jon Thompson, executive chair of HS2, told MPs on the transport select committee this month it was likely there would be “fewer seats on the route from London to Manchester”....
...Jon Thompson, formerly chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, has taken over as executive chair for an interim period while a replacement is found....
...Sir Jon Thompson, chair of HS2, told MPs on Wednesday that the official estimate for what remains of the controversial scheme was between £49bn and £56.6bn but this was in 2019 prices....
...Frasers Group has appointed four new board members including Sir Jon Thompson, the former head of the UK’s accounting regulator, which engaged in a bitter legal battle with the retailer during his tenure...
...Since construction started on the first phase of the line between London and Birmingham in 2020 the cost looks set to increase further, according to a report presented to HS2’s board by Jon Thompson, former...
...Sir Jon Thompson, a senior civil servant, was appointed chair last February....
...Sir Jon Thompson told parliament’s Transport Select Committee that the estimated cost for Phase 1 is between £49bn and £56.6bn in 2019 prices, but adjusting the range for current prices involves adding up...
...This acts as a disincentive to keep control of costs, as the chair of HS2 Jon Thompson told lawmakers this month....
...In a statement, HS2 Ltd said the project was of “unprecedented scale and complexity”, adding that under the leadership of Sir Jon Thompson, who took over as executive chair earlier this year, it was “committed...
...Sir Jon Thompson has been chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council since 2019, overseeing reforms during a period in which the watchdog roughly doubled in size to more than 400 people....
...But Jon Phillips, chief executive of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association, said that without a “clear and stable policy environment” this was unlikely to happen, adding that for “global infrastructure...
...Jon Hart, a construction procurement expert at law firm Pinsent Masons, said the majority of contracts north of Birmingham had likely not yet come to market, “so pulling the plug may have minimal impact”...
...Sir Jon Thompson is set to step down as chief executive of the UK audit watchdog to become the new chair of the HS2 high-speed rail link project, balancing both jobs during a six-month notice period....
...“People like owning essential monopolies because, in the absence of close regulation, they can extract high profits,” says Jon Moulton, a private equity veteran and founder of Better Capital....
...Estimated costs for the Euston redevelopment have risen from around £2.8bn to nearly £4bn in 2019 prices, according to an internal document presented last year to HS2’s board by Sir Jon Thompson, the former...
...Chaotic energy is humanising, argues Tim Gill, an author and advocate of children’s play....
...After a troubled five-year hold period, the firm is now looking for an exit, the FT’s Gill Plimmer and DD’s Will Louch report....
...cynical fecundity, and the floor of the forest — littered with old mossbacked logs, peopled with toadstools strange and solemn among the ferns and creepers and leaning to show their delicate livercolored gills...
...KPMG boss Jon Holt apologised in January, saying the firm had misled the UK accounting regulator during an inspection of the audit of Carillion’s 2016 accounts....
...We have had to flip that,” says Andrea Gill (AJNG), co-head of human resources. The overseas expansion brings other strains....
...Meanwhile, Jon Ashworth, shadow health secretary, called on Downing Street to sack Lord James Bethell, a junior health minister, following reports that both he and Hancock had used their private Gmail accounts...
...Jon Lewis, the oil industry executive brought in to pull the business back from the brink of collapse three years ago, is trying to reposition the company as a technology-led consultancy competing with high-margin...
...Jon Lewis, chief executive of Capita, said: “We are pleased to have agreed the sale of ESS to Montagu Private Equity after a comprehensive auction process....
...Jon Lewis, the oil industry chief executive brought in two years ago to turn round the company, has been trying to cut costs and reposition the business as a technology-led consultancy competing with high-margin...
...Eversheds Sutherland has hired Jon Gill as a partner in its London corporate practice, where he will focus on M&A, venture capital and private equity in the technology sector....
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