On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:41:52 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 11:47:32 on
Mon, 1 Jun 2015, Paul Corfield remarked:
Sorry but the £230m has now turned into £70m because of the view of
the CAA. All included in the National Audit Office report on
Crossrail. The DfT have to pick up the tab for private sector funding
shortfalls.

Still within the contingency (for such hiccups).

See para 2.16 of
http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl.../Crossrail.pdf

You'll excuse me if I'm not very sympathetic to Heathrow's position
even if it was their regulator who made the final determination as to
the Crossrail contribution.

Clearly, if they get a third runway then they'll get more benefit, and
maybe the sums will be done again.

They'll have to be. If LHR does get the third runway, there will
undoubtedly be all sorts of strict additional emissions, noise,
transport links, etc, requirements and restrictions.