The Hybrid Bill Process For HS2.

Hybrid bills are comparatively rare, but currently topical following the Government's decision to use the hybrid bill process for each phase of HS2 as it considers this to be 'the most appropriate route.'

• This is because the Government believes that the hybrid bill process:
• can grant planning permission for the railway and enable changes to be made to primary legislation to change railway regulation so that the impacts of the railway can be considered in totality;
• allows, through use of the Select Committee stages, people affected by the scheme to have their case heard before the Committee; and
• has been used to authorise other new railways such as Crossrail and the Channel Tunnel and Channel Tunnel Rail Link.