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| Tuesday 4th December 2007 |
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| Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill
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| | (1) | the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday |
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| | (a) | at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 4th December; |
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| | (b) | at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 6th December; |
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| | (c) | at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 11th December; |
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| | (2) | the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following |
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| | | | | | | | Until no later than 1.00 p.m. |
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| | (3) | the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a |
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| | conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 11th December. |
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| | That subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the |
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| | Committee shall be reported to the House for publication. |
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| | That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the |
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| | Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted. |
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| | The following witnesses gave oral evidence:
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| | Tom Harris MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport; Graham |
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| | Dalton, Director, Rail Projects and David Lunn, Divisional Manager, Major |
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| | Projects, Department for Transport. |
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| Clause 1, page 1, line 5, at end add— |
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| | ‘(3) | In subsection (1) “railway services” refer only to those services that both |
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| | originate and terminate in the United Kingdom.’. |
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| Clause 2, page 1, leave out lines 7 to 9 and insert— |
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| | ‘Section 17 of the 1996 Act (access agreements) is repealed.’. |
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| Clause 3, page 1, leave out lines 11 to 16 and insert— |
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| | ‘Section 21 of the 1996 Act (duties of the Office of Rail Regulation as to |
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| | the exercise of regulatory functions) is repealed.’. |
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