Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that HS2 Ltd takes account of the report by RPS Planning and Development, entitled Acoustics assessment of the effects of HS2, rebuttal evidence, published on 24 November 2016, in any discussions on compensation that it has with Aston Villa Football Club relating to the effect of noise from High Speed 2 on that club's Bodymoor Heath training ground.

HS2 Ltd will take the noise evidence provided by RPS Planning and Development into account in the on-going discussions regarding the effects of noise from HS2 on the Bodymoor Heath training ground.