Examination of Witnesses (Questions 17660
- 17679)
17660. Mrs Wheeler: Well, linked to that,
or do you want me to leave the consultation altogether?
17661. Chairman: All I would say is repeat
what Brian has said, that we have had quite a lot of dialogue
on this during the course of the hearings and we have raised it
before. What I want to do in respect of the consultation is to
listen to Mr Mould's response to your presentation and maybe ask
him some questions then. Certainly it will give you an opportunity
at the end to come back in your summing up on what he has actually
said on the matter.
17662. Mrs Wheeler: Well, we do have
some other letters.
17663. Chairman: You can stick with the
matter of the consultation or the lack of it, if you like, but
I think you have made the point about the lack of consultation.
It has already been made very, very clear to members of the Committee
that there has not been a great deal of it and what we will be
doing is listening to Mr Mould's response to that and then making
a judgment along those lines. If there are other letters that
you would like us to see, we would be more than willing to have
them copied for ourselves and also to give them to Mr Mould in
order to further make your point because we will not be making
any decisions today, but we meet as a committee and we discuss
all the Petitions and then take a general view on each one.
17664. Mrs Wheeler: There would be just
two other letters that I would like you to see.
17665. Chairman: Okay, proceed.
17666. Mrs Wheeler: It probably will
not take long. We formulated a number of questions after going
through the literature and we thought that the most important
questions that we needed answering were ones that we wrote down
in 17 questions. On 4 July, we sent a letter to Crossrail and
it is a very straightforward letter asking 17 very basic questions.[53]
17667. Chairman: Could I just ask, whose
letter is it? Is it your letter or is it from the group?
17668. Mrs Wheeler: It is our letter,
purely our letter.
17669. Chairman: There is a rather long
gap between November and July.
17670. Mrs Wheeler: Yes.
17671. Chairman: So you took that length
of time to respond?
17672. Mr Wheeler: No, we did not. We
did not get any more information out of Crossrail at the time.
The rounds of consultation had finished. We do not actually know
what it was because we did not actually see it, but we understand
that—
17673. Chairman: So you spent that time
trying to find out?
17674. Mr Wheeler: During that time we
went to the library, we went to the local town hall. We saw the
fact that the original document was an A2 document which we waded
through to try and find information, so from visiting the library
and the town hall and places like that, we came to this letter.
It takes a while to try and get information because it is no longer
there until you dig it out.
17675. Chairman: You have satisfied my
curiosity.
17676. Mr Wheeler: So we then write this
letter.
17677. Mrs Wheeler: And we got a reply
on 27 July, so we wrote the letter on 4 July and we got a reply
on 27 July, which perhaps could be put up.[54]
17678. Mr Wheeler: As you can see for
17 questions, it is a very short reply.
17679. Mr Binley: Is that the sum total
of the letter?
53 Committee Ref: A195, Correspondence from Ms Barbara
Clarke and Mr Tony Wheeler to CLRL, 4 July 2005 (TOWHLB-31205-004). Back
54
Committee Ref: A195, Correspondence from CLRL to Ms Barbara Clarke
and Mr Tony Wheeler, 27 July 2005 (TOWHLB-31205-006 and -007). Back
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