Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, under the exceptional hardship scheme for HS2 Phase One, how many applications to acquire properties have been (1) made, (2) refused, and (3) granted.

The number of applications to acquire properties as at 1 June 2014 which had been (1) made, (2) refused, and (3) granted under the Exceptional Hardship Scheme for HS2 Phase One are indicated in the table below:

* 24 applications were pending a decision and 28 applications were withdrawn by the applicant.

The information above is available on the HS2 Ltd website at the following link

http://www.hs2.org.uk/developing-hs2/property/exceptional-hardship-scheme

In addition, on 9 April 2014, the Government announced a package of long-term discretionary property compensation measures for Phase One of HS2. The Express Purchase and Rent-back approach are available now and we intend to launch the Need to Sell and Voluntary Purchase schemes by the end of the year.