Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the sale of properties that were subject to compulsory purchase orders on the HS2 phase two route.

Any land and property that is no longer required will be sold, and a programme is being developed to do this.

Where any land or property has been acquired compulsorily or via statutory blight and is no longer required, it will be sold subject to the Crichel Down Rules. These require government departments, under certain circumstances, to offer back surplus land to the former owner or the former owner’s successors at the current market value. All land and property will be assessed prior to disposal.