Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the changes made to the latest edition of the HS2 Development Agreement, dated November 2018.

This is a routine update of the DA building on the version published in 2017. The intention is to produce a more simplified version of the DA with an emphasis on plain English. The DA continues to provide clarity on roles and responsibilities between HS2 Ltd and DfT to reflect the growing maturity of the programme and as the project moves from development to delivery. This revised DA provides clarifications and amendments to, for example, the Land and Property section where the concepts of Core Land, Additional Land, Management Land and Operation & Maintenance Land are set out. It amends the role for HS2 Ltd associated with the shadow operator functions transferring to the West Coast Partnership and changes the Performance Remedies Regime. Other areas of change include:

• Stations Commercialisation
• Sponsor’s Requirements
• Wider Programme Benefits
• Over Site development
• Management Information
• Undertakings and Assurances
• Instruction, Change and Affirmation Process