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Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill

I am grateful to my noble friend. He would be very wise to use some of the ORR expertise for some of this cost checking. I hear what he says; this is a new railway and maintaining it should not be too difficult. However, there are tunnels, bridges and high-speed track, and I suspect that the ORR employs somewhere between 100 and 150 people to look at the costs of Network Rail and work out how to get them down, which is a significant amount of work. I am pleased by what he said—if I understood him correctly—about using some of the ORR’s expertise. This is again something to follow up. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.