High Speed 2 Railway Line: Stafford

(asked on 4th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many houses in Stafford constituency have been purchased by (a) the High Speed 2 Exceptional Hardship Scheme and (b) other schemes since each such scheme was launched; and what the average cost is of each such purchase.


Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th July 2017

The number and average value of houses purchased in the Stafford constituency broken down by HS2 scheme is as follows

Scheme

Number of homes purchased

Average value of purchase

Exceptional Hardship Scheme (Note 1)

15

£404,147

Need to Sell

3

£277,167

Statutory Blight

3

£606,667

Note 1 - In May 2016 the Exceptional Hardship Scheme was withdrawn for the Phase 2a section of HS2 when the Need to Sell scheme was confirmed for this part of the route.

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