Skip to main content

High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 47257, tabled on 7 October 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which organisations his Department has formally consulted on the location of the proposed High Speed 2 station in South Yorkshire.

Answered on

14 October 2016

High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd carried out a public consultation on proposals for the HS2 Phase 2 route in 2013 on behalf of the Department for Transport. This contained the location of potential HS2 stations, including South Yorkshire.

Appendix A of the consultation summary report lists the organisations that responded to the consultation:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/480397/P2LoR_Ipsos_MORI_FINAL_REPORT.pdf.pdf

The Government will make an announcement on the HS2 Phase Two route, of which South Yorkshire is a part, later this year. A public consultation on the route in this area will be issued at the same time as the announcement.