JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER WRITTEN AND ORAL EVIDENCE Contents Kolly Ajao - Written evidence (RAR0060) ....................................................... 5 All-Party Parliamentary Group on Archaeology - Written evidence (RAR0046) ...................................................................................................................... 7 Jacqueline Baker - Written evidence (RAR0050) ............................................. 9 Alan Baxter Ltd - Written evidence (RAR0055) ............................................. 10 Alex Bird - Written evidence (RAR0010) ....................................................... 16 Simon Blackburn - Written evidence (RAR0045) ........................................... 18 Lord Bowness CBE DL - Written evidence (RAR0048) .................................... 22 Steve Brine MP - Written evidence (RAR0013) ............................................. 23 British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union - Written evidence (RAR0028) .................................................................................................................... 24 The Rt Hon Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO & The Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE - Oral evidence (QQ25-37) ..................................................................... 25 Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, Royal Institute of British Architects & Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Oral evidence (QQ55-97) ........................................... 33 Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers - Written evidence (RAR0063) .................................................................................................... 52 Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers - Supplementary written evidence (RAR0066) ..................................................................................... 55 Professor Sarah Childs - Written evidence (RAR0031) .................................. 57 Cara Clark and Mark Wyman - Written evidence (RAR0040) ........................ 62 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Executive Committee - Written evidence (RAR0034) ..................................................................................... 64 Compass Group UK & Ireland – Written Evidence (RAR0067) ....................... 69 Philip Connolly - Written evidence (RAR0047).............................................. 71 1 The Rt Hon Lord Cope of Berkeley - Written evidence (RAR0009) ................ 72 Simon Cramp - Written evidence (RAR0062) ................................................ 75 Baroness Deech DBE - Written evidence (RAR0011) ..................................... 77 Jonathan Djanogly MP - Written evidence (RAR0001) .................................. 78 Caroline Emery - Written evidence (RAR0004) ............................................. 79 Harry Fenton - Written evidence (RAR0058) ................................................ 80 Professor Matthew Flinders & Dr Leanne-Marie McCarthy-Cotter, The Sir Bernard Crick Centre, University of Sheffield - Written evidence (RAR0006) 81 Oonagh Gay OBE - Written evidence (RAR0020) .......................................... 83 James Heappey MP - Written evidence (RAR0068)....................................... 85 Sir Michael Hopkins - Written evidence (RAR0037) ...................................... 86 Institution of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Royal Institute of British Architects & Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Oral evidence (QQ55-97) ........................................... 87 Institution of Civil Engineers - Written evidence (RAR0042) ......................... 88 Conor Jackson - Written evidence (RAR0026) ............................................... 92 The Earl of Kinnoull - Written evidence (RAR0049)....................................... 93 Graham Lang - Written evidence (RAR0015) ................................................ 98 Lord Leigh of Hurley - Written evidence (RAR0043) ...................................... 99 Lord Lucas - Written evidence (RAR0005) ................................................... 100 Susanna Lumsden - Written evidence (RAR0061) ....................................... 101 The Earl of Lytton - Written evidence (RAR0008) ....................................... 115 Andrew Makower - Written evidence (RAR0014) ....................................... 117 Master Carvers’ Association - Written evidence (RAR0017) ....................... 119 Dr Leanne-Marie McCarthy-Cotter & Professor Matthew Flinders, The Sir Bernard Crick Centre, University of Sheffield - Written evidence (RAR0006) .................................................................................................................. 120 Kirsty McCullagh - Written evidence (RAR0024) ......................................... 121 Microsoft - Written evidence (RAR0057) .................................................... 122 Roger Mullin MP - Written evidence (RAR0021) ......................................... 125 National Federation of Roofing Contractors - Written evidence (RAR0041) 127 2 National Heritage Training Group - Written evidence (RAR0038) ............... 131 Nesta, Parliamentary Visitors Group & Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement - Oral evidence (QQ38-54) ..................................................... 135 Nesta - Written evidence (RAR0025) .......................................................... 147 Nichols Group - Written evidence (RAR0022) ............................................. 151 Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne - Written evidence (RAR0029) ......... 154 Jesse Norman MP - Written evidence (RAR0032) ....................................... 159 Overseas Offices of the House of Commons and House of Lords - Written evidence (RAR0051) ................................................................................... 161 Christine Owen - Written evidence (RAR0018) ........................................... 165 Parliamentary Press Gallery - Oral evidence (QQ1-24) ............................... 166 Parliamentary Press Gallery - Written evidence (RAR0019) ........................ 179 Parliamentary Press Gallery - Supplementary written evidence (RAR0064) 181 Parliamentary Visitors Group - Written evidence (RAR0059) ..................... 182 Jonathan Prew - Written evidence (RAR0027) ............................................ 189 Pupils 2 Parliament - Written evidence (RAR0016) ..................................... 194 John Redwood MP - Written evidence (RAR0003) ...................................... 200 Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE - Written evidence (RAR0054) .......................... 201 The Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE & The Rt Hon Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO - Oral evidence (QQ25-37) .................................................................. 203 Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers & Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Oral evidence (QQ55-97) ......................................................... 204 Royal Institute of British Architects - Written evidence (RAR0035) ............ 205 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers & Royal Institute of British Architects - Oral evidence (QQ55-97) ......................................................... 210 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Written evidence (RAR0052) .... 211 SNP Westminster Parliamentary Group - Written evidence (RAR0044) ...... 217 Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement, Nesta & Parliamentary Visitors Group - Oral evidence (QQ38-54) .................................................. 219 3 Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement - Written evidence (RAR0030) .................................................................................................. 220 Baroness Thomas of Winchester MBE - Written evidence (RAR0056) ......... 223 Trade Union Side, House of Commons - Written evidence (RAR0023) ........ 225 Unite Parliamentary Staff Branch - Written evidence (RAR0036) ............... 227 The Rt Hon Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Written evidence (RAR0007) ............ 229 David Watkinson - Written evidence (RAR0012) ........................................ 231 Women and Equalities Committee, House of Commons - Written evidence (RAR0065) .................................................................................................. 232 Mark Wyman and Cara Clark - Written evidence (RAR0040) ...................... 233 Some material in submissions RAR0037 and RAR0061 has been redacted for reasons of security and commercial confidentiality. 4 Kolly Ajao - Written evidence (RAR0060) Kolly Ajao - Written evidence (RAR0060) How the work should be delivered, whether Parliament should remain on site for the duration of the work – take several decades. In my opinion – Parliament remain on site – would be dangerous for the lords, Baroness, staff of both Houses, MPs, Visitors from all over the world that visit the Parliament as the work would be carried out at the same time. The Relocation of some or all of the functions of Parliament temporarily to another location in central London. This temporary options are favourable for me As sitting of Parliament could take place in central London with facilities to take Lords and Commons to have business carried, while the Restoration of Palace of Westminster being carry out. This