KHOODEELAAR! Contextual update on 'proceedings in Parliament' about Crossrail on day when Vince Cable was caught unplugged, exposed as Mr Bean!

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London
Wednesday
11 November 2009

KHOODEELAAR! Contextual update on 'proceedings in Parliament' about Crossrail on the same day when Vince Cable was shown up – a few miles to the east from the Palace of Ghostsminster- as a Mr Bean on the subject during his ‘celebrity’ appearance on a Lib Dems party-organised ‘public meeting’ held in Bethnal Green, at the Oxford House in Derbyshire Street London E2.

The IRONIC thing is that the 'written question’ in the House of Commons about Crossrail scam funding was put to the Crossrail agenda-carrying stooges in the UK 'Govt' [DAFT ‘Department for Transport’ = DfT] by Norman Baker, a 'co-league' of Vince Cable’s on the ‘Parliamentary’ Lib Dems Party ‘front bench’.

The written question was answered in predictably glib and unforthcoming style by the stooged bureaucrats. Apart from the glibness, the ‘written answer’ also lacked substance. It failed to answer the main queries in Norman Baker’s question.

However, in the texts as published by Hansard, there is a most telling admission that the CRASSrail scam-peddling elements were not willing to come clean about who was really doing what with how much money.

They hid behind the alleged commercial factor/s.

Which is to say that commercial interests of elements supersede the assumed constitutional sovereignty of the UK Parliament.

Which is why we have been calling the scam CRASS!

Crassly conceived.

Crassly passaged.

Crassly peddled.

[To be continued]




From the UK Parliament website, Hansard, report of proceedings in the UK House of Commons dated 15 October 2009


http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/ByDate/20091015/writtenanswers/part010.html


Transport
Crossrail Line: Finance
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much has been (a) spent on and (b) committed to the Crossrail project by (i) the Government and (ii) the private sector; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of the final cost of the project each such figure represents. [293275]
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Mr. Khan: Crossrail Ltd. (CRL) is delivering Crossrail on behalf of both Project Sponsors (the Department for Transport and Transport for London) and has spent £401 million in relation to the construction of Crossrail (excluding recoverable VAT on land and property purchases) since the granting of Royal Assent on 22 July 2008. In line with undertakings given to the House, expenditure from this date is reported annually, and I refer the hon. Member to the first of these statements, made to the House on 16 July 2009, Official Report, columns 80-81WS.
The profile of direct expenditure by private sector partners is a commercial matter for those partners.
The Crossrail funding package, announced by the Prime Minister in October 2007, is designed to strike a fair balance in securing financial contributions from all those who will benefit from the scheme—Government, businesses and passengers.
Central Government, through the Department for Transport, have committed £5.1 billion of direct funding to Crossrail, which amounts to approximately one third of the funding package, in line with the estimated costs of construction of £15.9 billion.
Private sector commitments to Crossrail include a number of commercial agreements with private sector companies to provide contributions to Crossrail, given the benefits which will flow to businesses as a result of the scheme.
These include agreements with Canary Wharf Group, City of London, Berkeley Homes Group and BAA, as well as wider contributions being made through Business Rate Supplements, the planned Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106 developer contributions. Such commitments constitute approximately one third of the Crossrail funding package.