Antoinette Sandbach – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Antoinette Sandbach on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35404, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) the High Speed 2 LiDAR surveys, (b) all notes of all the consultations with (i) Tata Chemicals Europe Ltd, (ii) Compass Minerals UK Ltd and (iii) all other brine and salt extraction stakeholders and (c) the details of the mining engineer commissioned to undertake a study of the saltfield including the location of known brine wells; and on what date that study of the saltfield was commissioned.

Mr Robert Goodwill

All survey and study information will be published in due course and it would not be appropriate to publish partial information at this time as this could be misleading to the public.

All meetings with individual business are treated in confidence due to commercial sensitivities surrounding the discussions.

The details of the consultant are treated as commercial in confidence. The consultant was commissioned in January 2014 to undertake this study.