High Speed 2 Railway Line

(asked on 25th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many land and property transactions have been conducted as part of phase 1 of High Speed 2; and how many of those transactions are subject to Non-Disclosure Agreements on behalf of either party to the transaction.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th March 2021

In Phase One there have been 1,491 compensation payments made. Please note that an acquisitions case typically can have multiple payments associated with it.

HS2 Ltd does not as a matter of course ask for NDAs as default for its land and property acquisitions. For the programme as a whole, HS2 Ltd has over 400 specific confidentiality agreements but does not record/label the agreements as to whether they relate to land and property transactions or not.

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