Please click on the link provided to access a copy of a letter Tony has received from Philip Hammond regarding railway noise: HS2 Letter from Philip Hammond 260511 re Railway Noise.

To keep you up to date, please find here a copy of a letter Tony Baldry has received from Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State, in response to a number of questions that he put to him recently.

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what consideration was given to the effect of the introduction of universal access to nearly free high definition video links over the internet on the number of business meetings conducted over the internet in the projected business passenger numbers for HS2. [52879]

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a map of the revised proposed route of High Speed Two marking the location of all (a) tunnels, (b) embankments, (c) deep cuttings, (d) properties that will require noise insulation and (e) properties facing extremely high levels of noise. [43661]

Please click on the link provided to see a copy of an article in the Bicester Advertiser regarding HS2 noise maps: HS2 Noise Map newspaper article 150411.

On 8 April, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry wrote a letter to Philip Hammond MP asking for some answers to questions about HS2. To view this letter please click here: Philip Hammond MP 080411.

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the arrangements for the public consultation on High Speed 2 have been subjected to an equalities impact assessment. [44115]

On Thursday 31 March, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry spoke in a debate in Westminster Hall on the issue of HS2. Tony Baldry took the opportunity to reiterate the collective duty MPs have to ensure that they get it right. He also expressed his support for the inquiry being undertaken by the Transport Committee and the need for everything to be properly assessed.

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MP for Bicester, Tony Baldry, talks about the planned enquiry into the economic case for HS2 in his monthly column.