Select Committee on Crossrail Bill Minutes of Evidence


Examination of Witnesses (Questions 4620 - 4623)

  4620. Chairman: Ms Lieven, you are happy with this programme?

  4621. Ms Lieven: Yes, on the very specific facts of this very specific case and where we have got to. We are most unhappy, to be frank, about deferring petitions in this situation but we have said to Salisbury House that because the issue is so narrow and simply one of process, and because they have made that clear publicly to the Committee so that the Committee knows that if they come back, we had reached that stage that we are not going to oppose a deferral. I am couching it in those terms, sir, because you can understand that Mr Walker, who is organising the programme, is under a lot of pressure from many other Petitioners to defer for further negotiation and it has proved very difficult to get Petitioners to appear in front of this Committee because they all want to defer. So we are very bothered about the public message that goes out from agreeing to defer Salisbury House, but on these particular circumstances we are not resisting a deferral.

  4622. Chairman: Bearing in mind that we have the draft in front of us and we are so close it seems sensible to follow that course.

  4623. Chairman: That being the end of this sitting we now stand adjourned until tomorrow at 10 a.m. in this room.






 
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