Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 1 April (HL15993), how many properties owned by HS2 Limited on the Phase 2b eastern leg have been disposed of.

Six properties that were situated along the former Meadowhall route, which was removed in 2016 when the Phase 2b East route to Leeds was altered, were sold between 2023-2024 as part of a disposals pilot project. Following the announcement in July 2025 of a programme to dispose of over 550 properties on the former Phase 2b eastern leg of HS2, the department has appointed a delivery agent to develop and implement this programme. No properties have yet been sold under this programme. We expect open market sales to begin in late 2026.