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Consultation summary report

This report provides a summary of the responses to the government鈥檚 consultation on 鈥楬igh speed rail: Investing in Britain鈥檚 future鈥�.

Erratum

Please note: 鈥楾able A2.2: responding organisations by sector鈥� in 鈥楢ppendix 2: list of participating organisations鈥� of the above named report should include references to the following organisations and elected representatives:

• Christopher Pincher - Member of Parliament for Tamworth
• Kirklees Council
• Town and Country Planning Association
• Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

In the same table, 鈥業ain Steward - Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South鈥� should be listed as 鈥業ain Stewart鈥�.

The first paragraph under the heading 鈥楺uestion 6鈥� on page 15 of the above report should read as follows:

A total of 36,918 consultation responses comment on the Appraisal of Sustainability (AoS), including 614 which express satisfaction or endorsement and 158 which express concerns that the AoS is insufficient.

Addendum reports

2 addendum reports to the 鈥楬igh speed rail: investing in Britain鈥檚 future consultation summary report鈥� have since been published and separate written statements have been issued to Parliament about them on 17 July and 18 September 2012.

Addendum

After the consultation responses were published online, we then discovered that a small number of responses (407 out of 55,322 responses) had unintentionally not been forwarded to Dialogue by Design (DbyD) for inclusion in their response assessment process. In addition, a further 6 responses had been incorrectly marked as duplicates by DbyD.

This addendum report is a supplementary analysis of all the affected consultation responses which was commissioned from DbyD. The report concludes that these 413 responses do not provide any information that was not already included in the previous 鈥楥onsultation summary report鈥� or would have made a difference to the substantive content or balance of that report. Therefore, their inclusion in 顿产测顿鈥檚 original review of responses would not have substantially changed its findings nor affected the considerations which informed the decisions following consultation.

The Secretary of State for Transport issued a statement to Parliament about this on 17 July 2012 and we have contacted all those who submitted a response affected by the processing error. The consultation summary report and the addendum report each include a list of participating organisations at appendix 2 and appendix 1 respectively. Individual respondents are not listed.

Addendum 2

After the consultation responses were published online, we then discovered that a small number of responses submitted online (722 of around 55,000 submitted in total) were not analysed fully by DbyD due to technical errors. For these responses, the answers to one or more of the 7 consultation questions were omitted from 顿产测顿鈥檚 analysis. In total, approximately 0.4% of answers provided to individual consultation questions were affected.

Addendum 2 is a supplementary analysis by DbyD of the 722 affected consultation responses submitted online. The report concludes that the affected responses 鈥榙o not provide any information that was not already included in the previous consultation summary report or would have made a difference to the substantive content or balance of that report鈥�.

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport issued a statement about this to Parliament on 18 September 2012 explaining that the cause has been identified as technical errors in transferring data captured from online consultation responses to the consultation analysis database held by DbyD.

All those who submitted the responses affected have been contacted with details of their particular cases to notify them and apologise.