To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport through which parliamentary constituencies (a) in the present Parliament and (b) in the next Parliament the Government's preferred route for High Speed Two will pass. (325255)

[holding answer 30 March 2010]: HS2 Ltd.'s preferred route option passes through the following parliamentary constituencies in force in the present Parliament:

Aylesbury

Banbury

Beaconsfield

Birmingham Erdington

Birmingham Hodge Hill

Birmingham Ladywood

Brent East

Brent South

Buckingham

Chesham and Amersham

Daventry

Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush

Ealing North

Holborn and St. Pancras

Hampstead and Highgate

Lichfield

Meriden

North Warwickshire

Regents Park and Kensington North

Rugby and Kenilworth

Ruislip Northwood

South West Hertfordshire

Stratford-upon-Avon

Sutton Coldfield

Tamworth

Warwick and Leamington.

HS2 Ltd.'s preferred route option passes through the following parliamentary constituencies that will come into force in the next Parliament:

Aylesbury

Banbury

Beaconsfield

Birmingham, Erdington

Birmingham, Hodge Hill

Birmingham, Ladywood

Brent North

Buckingham

Chesham and Amersham

Ealing Central and Acton

Ealing North

Hammersmith

Hampstead and Kilburn

Holborn and St. Pancras

Kenilworth and Southam

Kensington

Lichfield

Meriden

North Warwickshire

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner

South Northamptonshire

South West Hertfordshire

Sutton Coldfield

Tamworth

Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Westminster North.