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Crossrail Bill [Instruction] (No. 5)

I am very grateful for that stricture, Mr. Deputy Speaker—considering that I was nowhere near my peroration. However, I will now cut to the chase. The Crossrail project will be enhanced by a station at Woolwich, provided that this can be achieved without adding to the public funding required. Developments since October, particularly the agreement in principle that has now been reached with Berkeley Homes, represent a very positive way forward on this difficult issue. Both the Government’s and the Select Committee’s objectives have been met. The motion before the House today is a further important step toward making a Crossrail station at Woolwich a reality, and I commend it to the House. Question put and agreed to. Resolved,"That it be a further Instruction to the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is""committed–""(1) that it have power to consider–""(a) the provision of a station at Woolwich, in the London Borough of Greenwich;""(b) realignment of the running tunnels at or in the vicinity of the proposed Woolwich Station;""(c) works associated with the realignment mentioned in paragraph (b) above:""and, if it thinks fit, to make amendments to the Bill with respect to any of the matters mentioned above, and for connected purposes;""(2) that any Petition against Amendments to the Bill which the Select Committee to which the Crossrail Bill is committed is empowered by paragraph (1) above to make shall be referred to that Select Committee if–""(a) it is presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office not later than the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the first newspaper notice of the Amendments was published or, if that period ends on a day on which the House does not sit, not later than the fifth day on which the House next sits, and""(b) it is one in which the Petitioners pray to be heard by themselves, their Counsel or Agents.""(3) that, in their application to Amendments of which the first newspaper notice is published after the date of this Instruction, paragraph 2(a) of Instruction (No. 2) [12th January 2006] and paragraph 2(a) of Instruction (No. 4) [31st October 2006] shall have effect as if for the words from ““that period? to the end there were substituted ““ends on a day on which the House does not sit, not later than the fifth day on which the House next sits?.""That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House." Sitting suspended.