Examination of Witnesses (Questions 3380
- 3399)
3380. MR MOULD: Yes. If it is convenient
to the Committee I will recall Mr Berryman to answer Mr Wheeler's
questions after the adjournment.
3381. CHAIRMAN: Could we make up a little
time by starting at twenty-five past two?
After a short adjournment
3382. CHAIRMAN: Mr Wheeler, you are a
very responsible member of the Spitalfields community, and we
are grateful for what you have done in putting this all together.
We are having a lot of trouble with Mr Haque and Khoodeelaar.
I do not know whether you can let it be known that we cannot get
him to answer anything; he will not answer the telephone and he
will not answer emails. If he does not come in accordance with
the programme—well, too bad. I do not know whether there
is any way in which you can get that message through to him. I
am sorry to put yet a further burden on you.
3383. MR WHEELER: I will do my best.
3384. CHAIRMAN: It is no use him going
on saying that he wants time to copy documents and all the rest
of it; he is either going to come or he is not going to come.
This has been programmed for a long time, as you well know, but
there you are. Could I put it in the hands of the Spitalfields
community to tell him gently that it is a matter for him to decide
whether he wants to come and tell the Select Committee his views
or not. If he does not come he will not tell us.
3385. MR WHEELER: You do have a time
for him, do you?
3386. CHAIRMAN: Yes, he is coming tomorrow
or Thursday.
3387. MR WHEELER: Right. Okay.
3388. CHAIRMAN: If he does not come tomorrow
or Thursday I do not know whether we will be able to hear him
at all.
3389. MR WHEELER: He is to contact the
Clerk?
3390. CHAIRMAN: If you can. He might
listen to you, whereas he does not appear to pay any attention
to us. This is quite serious because if he does not come in accordance
with the plan there will be no work for the Committee tomorrow
afternoon. No doubt the Promoter has plenty of things to do internally,
but it does not help us. It will help us in the end, but it does
not help us in terms of timetabling.
3391. Mr Mould, you wanted to ask some questions
of Mr Berryman.
3392. MR MOULD: My Lord, there were two
matters before I hand Mr Berryman over to Mr Wheeler, if I may.
The first is that I hope that your Lordships now have in front
of you an A3 copy of the schedule of assurances.
3393. CHAIRMAN: It is the comprehensive
undertakings and assurances.
3394. MR MOULD: I thought that as you
have it in front of you it might be worth—because it relates
to the matters that you have been told about this morning—just
drawing your Lordships' attention to the bottom of the first page
where there is a series of undertakings in relation to settlement.
In particular, the second of those undertakings relates to internal
inspection. You will see that an undertaking was given during
the Select Committee process in the other place as to the internal
inspection of the buildings within the 10 millimetre settlement
contour that are on the English Heritage Building at Risk Register,
to ensure that any particularly sensitive aspects of these properties
are considered in the assessment process. I do not think that
particular point came out clearly during the course of the evidence
this morning, so I thought I ought to draw that to your attention.
3395. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Mr Wheeler,
you have heard that.
3396. MR WHEELER: Yes, indeed.
3397. CHAIRMAN: An undertaking given
in October 2006. Has it filtered through?
3398. MR WHEELER: I suppose our question
is: "When?"
3399. CHAIRMAN: It evidently has not.
There it is.
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