Thank you for your letter of 3 April seeking further information about height capping, on behalf of Mr Richard Bacon MP, following the Committee hearing on 18 November.
As you may be aware, there has been previous correspondence between your oYce and my Company Secretary, Andrew Picton, on this subject. I attach the relevant correspondence dated 13 December26 and 10 March,27 from which you will see that replies have already been provided to Mr Bacon's various questions and we have explained that we do not keep statistics on height capping. I therefore do not understand why Mr Bacon is now asking further questions on height capping which, to all intents and purposes, are identical to the questions posed in the Committee's e-mail to Mr Picton of 17 February and to which a detailed response has already been provided.
I can only re-iterate that we do not keep the statistics requested by Mr Bacon.
I am copying this letter to the National Audit Office and to the Department of Transport for information. Richard Everitt 10 April 2003
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26 Ev 28-31.
27 Ev 34-36.