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Crossrail Bill

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Derek Twigg) has made the following Ministerial Statement. On 23 May the Secretary of State announced that our invitation to the public of 22 February 2005 to comment on the Crossrail environmental statement was to be extended to 10 June. In accordance with our commitment to present to the House and publish all documents received, we are publishing today a Command Paper Responses to the Government's Consultation on the Crossrail Bill Environmental Statement. Copies of the report are being placed today in the Library of the House. The paper can also be found on the Department for Transport website at www.dft.gov.uk. A supplementary environmental statement (SES) was published on 26 May. The Department for Transport has invited comments on the SES, and those should be submitted by 8 July 2005. Comments on the SES should be sent to Tim Neate, Consultation Manager, Major Projects Division 3, Zone 2/08, 76 Marsham Street, London, SWIP 4DR (e-mail: crossrail@dft.gsi.gov.uk). All comments received will be presented to Parliament and published.