High Speed Rail (Phase 1 Consultation) Debate
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(11 years, 11 months ago)
Written StatementsThe Government’s decision on 10 January 2012 to take forward proposals for a national high speed rail network followed a major public consultation exercise that attracted around 55,000 responses.
The decision to proceed took account of a range of evidence including analysis by my Department and High Speed Two Ltd of issues raised in consultation as well as comments from a wide variety of interested parties through a range of engagement approaches. The Government’s independent response analysis consultants, Dialogue by Design (DbyD), carried out a detailed analysis of the consultation responses and a summary of their analysis was published alongside the Government’s January decision, with an addendum report published in July:
“High Speed Rail: Investing in Britain’s Future—Consultation Summary Report”, available at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/publications/hs2-consultation-summary.
“High Speed Rail: Investing in Britain’s Future—Addendum”, available at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/publications/high-speed-rail-addendum/.
Since publishing the addendum report in July, it has become apparent that a further very small proportion of responses were not fully analysed by DbyD. For these responses, the answers to one or more of the seven consultation questions were omitted from DbyD’s analysis. In total, approximately 0.4% of answers provided to individual consultation questions were affected.
The table below shows how many of the seven consultation answers were omitted from the analysis in each case:
Number of question responses not analysed1 | Number of respondents |
---|---|
1 | 520 |
2 | 130 |
3 | 44 |
4 | 14 |
5 | 7 |
6 | 2 |
7 | 5 |
1Because not all respondents answered all seven questions, there are 20 respondents in total for whom all the questions they answered were omitted. |