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VenerableBottyBurp Jan 7, 2004 13:59:48
Replying to Pete G

My guess (and it is only that) is that the public will never see the actual report by SKANSKA, and that EH if they do issue a report will reference it without making it available - commercial confidence and intellectual property being the blankets they will use to keep it under wraps.

£1m seems a small amount in commercial terms for that many people and that technology for so long....and a large amount for taxpayers as Nigel rightly says has got little news let alone a result out of it. I don't gamble but i bet its more....££££s more !

I am not supposed to be on here - apologies everyone, I got excited and joined in.

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N nigelswift
nigelswift Jan 7, 2004 14:43:08
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Well, despite any eavesdroppers I can tell you I fully intend to ask for it since, as I understand it, we the public are fully entitled to see all of it except for the specific and perfectly reasonable exceptions of commercial confidentiality etc laid out in the Freedom of Information Act. I don't see how the true level of stability of a collapsed shaft can be passed off as commercially sensitive or claimed as intellectual property.

If I don't get a prompt reply, or if I get a refusal, or if I get to see less than I myself judge is my entitlement under the Act I shall lodge an appeal to the Information Commissioner. EH will then have to justify every line that they want to withhold directly to him.

That's what's going to happen, since I'm a crank with time on his hands.