Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, who has sat on the (a) Exceptions, (b) People and (c) Management Panel of High Speed 2; and between what dates each such person served on those panels.

The HS2 Ltd People Panel was constituted in 2014 and its responsibilities were transferred into the Management Panel in 2016. The People Panel was chaired by the HR Director, membership included Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Programme and Strategy Director, Phase Two Managing Director, Railway Operations Managing Director, Technical Director, Phase One Managing Director, Corporate Health and Safety Director and Organisational Effectiveness & Change Director.

The Management Panel was constituted in 2016 and its responsibilities were transferred to other Executive meetings as part of the company’s Governance review in 2017. The Panel was chaired by the Chief Financial Officer, membership included General Counsel & Company Secretary, Corporate Health and Safety Director, HR Director, Organisational Effectiveness & Change Director, Corporate Affairs Director, alongside four other staff members from the CEO office, Phase One, Phase Two and Railway Operations.

The HS2 Ltd Exceptions Panel was chaired by the HR Director, membership included the Technical Director, Corporate Health and Safety Director and senior staff members from Finance, HR and Organisational Effectiveness and Change.