Examination of Witnesses (Questions 360
- 361)
THURSDAY 8 JULY 2004
RT HON
KEITH HILL,
MR MIKE
ASH, MRS
VICTORIA THOMSON
AND MR
GREIG CHALMERS
Q360 Chairman: I think that covers
pretty well all that we wanted ask you. Towards the end of your
session you have given us some encouragement to make one or two
recommendations, which I think the Committee might well be minded
to make. You have offered to give us some more written answers.
We are on a very, very tight timetable with this inquiry and we
effectively, a week today, have to agree the report in order to
report to the House two weeks today, but, whatever information
you do provide us, to what extent we will be able to take account
of it in some of our deliberations—I am not entirely sure—but,
of course, it will be published in the Memorandum of Evidence,
and I think that would be beneficial for the various organisations
who would be seeking to take advantage, if that is not too strong
a word, of the opportunities that the new Bill will provide?
Keith Hill: I take the point on
that, Chairman, but let me say that my officials will make every
effort to get the information I have promised the Committee into
your hands at the earliest opportunity so that you may be able
to take it into account in your deliberations.
Q361 Chairman: That would be helpful.
Can I thank you, Mr Ash and Mrs Thomson for being very generous
with your time and for answering our questions and for your attendance
today?
Keith Hill: Chairman, it has been
a pleasure.
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