Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the decision was taken to award compensation to people affected by HS2.

The first of the non-statutory property compensation schemes was introduced on Phase One in January 2010. Since then, the wider suite of statutory and non-statutory schemes have been progressively applied to the three phases of the HS2 route. The Government conducted large scale public consultations before extending the non-statutory property compensation schemes to each phase of the route. The schemes are generous and comprehensive.

The Government does not publish the date or details of individual compensation awards. Since the first property compensation scheme was launched in January 2010, a total of £1,791,287,522 has been paid out as at the end of May 2018 to residential and commercial property owners. The schemes will remain in place until one year after each phase of HS2 is fully operational.