HS2 Additional Provision environmental statement consultation
Detail of outcome
Parliament appointed a technical assessor to summarise the comments received in response to this consultation. The summary report can be viewed on Parliament’s website:
Detail of feedback received
Responses to the consultation from organisations, elected representatives and individuals that did not request confidentiality have been published:
Original consultation
Consultation description
A proposed set of changes to the High Speed Rail (London to West Midlands) Bill, known as an Additional Provision (AP), has been introduced to Parliament, addressing a number of amendments required to enable HS2 Phase One to be delivered. In line with Parliamentary Standing Orders, additional environmental information has been produced.
Parliament is now conducting a consultation on the Additional Provision (September 2014) environmental statement to ensure that the decision taken by Parliament at Third Reading of the Bill is informed by the public’s views on the Bill’s environmental impacts.
Confidentiality and data protection
Consultation responses will be published on a publicly accessible website. Individuals’ names, addresses or signatures will not be published. However, please do not include information in your response that could identify you, unless you are happy for it to be made public.
If you do not want any of your response to be published, you should clearly mark it as ‘Confidential’ in the subject line of the email or at the top of your letter. However, please note the following.
All information provided in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be subject to disclosure in accordance with access to information regimes - these are, primarily, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
Under the FOIA, there is a statutory Code of Practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals with our confidentiality obligations, amongst other things. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain in your response why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. If we receive a request for disclosure of the information you provide, we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the Department for Transport or HS2 Ltd.
Please note that all responses received, whether marked ‘Confidential’ or not, will be passed on in full to the Houses of Parliament and their appointed Assessor, who will analyse the responses and make a report to Parliament. That report will not contain your personal data. Responses will also be sent to HS2 Ltd during the process of making them available for public viewing.
Related HS2 documents
- HS2 Additional Provision (September 2014) Environmental statement
- HS2 Phase One Additional Provision (September 2014): Non-technical summary
- HS2 Phase One Additional Provision (September 2014): Volume 1 to 3 - Introduction, area reports and route wide effects
- HS2 Phase One Additional Provision (September 2014): Volume 2 - Mapbooks
- HS2 Phase One Additional Provision (September 2014): Volume 5 - Environmental topics
- HS2 Phase One Additional Provision (September 2014)