WRITTEN
EVIDENCE SUBMITTED
BY LORD
OXBURGH (UEA REVIEWS
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Letter from the Clerk of the Committee to Lord
Oxburgh, 21 September 2010
The Committee has asked me to thank you for
giving oral evidence on 8 September, which it found very useful.
Members have two follow-up questions and I should
be grateful if you could let me have written replies. Your responses
may be published by the Committee. The questions follow from the
questions and answers at Qq 32 and 33 in the transcript and are
as follows.
— Can you explain where the list of eleven
papers came from?
— Did the list arrive with the panel before
the Royal Society had been consulted?
Thank you for your assistance.
Email from Lord Oxburgh to the Clerk of the Committee,
30 September 2010
Thank you for your message. The two questions:
1. The list of papers came to us from the University
as a representative sample of the work of CRU that would offer
us a way into the subject. We had no direct or detailed knowledge
of the origin of the list but understood that the RS was involved
in its production. We made no special inquiries on this matter
and attached no particular significance to the origin of the list
at the time, nor did we later. It in no way restricted our examination
of other publications or material.
2. I think that this is very unlikely but we
have no way of telling.
September 2010
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