§ Sir John StanleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library the full text of the criteria and guidelines used to implement the unpublished hardship scheme for the channel tunnel rail link referred to in paragraph 38 of the report to Parliament by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration on the "Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Blight".
§ Mr. WattsThis scheme was operated by Union Railways following the Government's announcement on 22 March 1993 of a defined route for the channel tunnel rail link for consultation purposes, and applied to that part of the route that was not covered by existing safeguarding directions until February 1994 when further safeguarding directions were issued. No specific new guidelines were produced because, as the commissioner's report indicates, the scheme was similar to the British Rail 1988 scheme described in paragraphs 31 and 32 of his report, except that properties generally had to be within 67 m of the centre line of the consultation route, which served only as a "coarse sift" as to possible eligibility.