LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
Thank you for your letter of 18 January inviting
me to give oral evidence to your current inquiry and requesting
copies of notes of Monitoring Committee meetings.
I have carefully considered your request that
I make available the minutes of the meetings of the Stadium Monitoring
Committee. While I wish to be as helpful as possible to the Committee,
representatives ofnon-governmental organisations took part in
those meetings on the understanding that discussions were in confidence.
Some of the subject matter discussed also covered commercial plans
of particular parties. I therefore do not feel that I can agree
to your request on this occasion.
I should be happy to give oral evidence to the
Committee. Given that Kate and I have worked so closely on the
National Stadium I shoud like to suggest that we attend a Committee
session together. Unfortunately, given Cabinet commitments, it
would not be feasible for me to attend the session at which Kate
is currently due to give evidence on 27 January. Would it be possible,
for Kate and I therefore to attend a session on 1 February.
January 2000
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