Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Privacy Notice on data collection on the HS2 website was removed; and what the reasons for that removal were.

A privacy notice was published on HS2 Ltd’s website in 2015 that set out the kinds of data that HS2 Ltd could seek to hold and how it could be used. The document included a broad list of data, including examples of data which HS2 Ltd have not and do not ever intend to collect from individuals.

The privacy notice was compliant with the Data Protection Act and was reviewed prior to publication by HS2 Ltd’s external legal advisers.

HS2 Ltd withdrew the Privacy Notice on Friday 18th November 2016 as it does not reflect how the company handles information. HS2 Ltd are undertaking a review and will publish a revised Privacy Notice shortly.