Published on
15/06/2026 - 15:22 GMT+2
Delaying restoration of Britain's crumbling Houses of Parliament could add £420 million (€485 million) a year to the final bill, the country's National Audit Office (NAO) forecast Monday.
Plans to restore the Victorian neo-Gothic edifice, which is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring Westminster Abbey, stretch back more than a decade.
However works have yet to start owing to concerns over the project's huge costs estimated at tens of billions of pounds, as well as on worries about disruption caused by rehousing MPs and Lords in temporary buildings for many years.
