Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the conclusions of the Oakervee review into HS2 were reached following a full debate and voting by all members of the review panel.

The Oakervee Review’s Terms of Reference set by ministers state that panel members will feed in to and be consulted on the report’s conclusions and make clear that members do not have veto arrangements. We expect that Doug Oakervee will set out the views of the Panel and Deputy Chair in respect of his report which we have committed to publish.