West coast fiasco to cost £50m

Published on 26/02/2013 00:00

Civil servant failures over the west coast rail contract will cost taxpayers “at least £50 million”, a report by MPs has said.

There was a lack of leadership at the Department for Transport and a failure to “get basic processes right”, the report from the Commons public accounts committee said.

The report said the department failed to learn from mistakes made in previous projects and senior managers had failed to apply common sense .