Question follow-through · 43480
High Speed 2 Line: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to retain passive provision for the HS2 junction north of Birmingham Interchange.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Shipping: Carbon Emissions · 29 Apr 2025
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- Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026 · 24 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to retain passive provision for the HS2 junction north of Birmingham Interchange.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department’s priority is on delivering Phase 1 at the lowest reasonable cost. We continue to review the wider position we inherited on rail infrastructure and will announce more details in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Shipping: Carbon Emissions
29 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) ports and (b) shipping companies to (i) cut emissions and (ii) transition to clean fuels.