The Thomas Mann House is a two-story villa completed in 1942 for writer and Nobel Prize laureate Mann and his family.

"But then the person I spoke to said they had no timescale for the calculations to be completed. So holding my breath was not recommended."

Ofsted completed 38 area-wide inspections on Send in the last year, MPs were told, with 12 councils found to be failing, 16 inconsistent and 12 positive.

But there is still no clear timeline for when the whole project will be completed, or how the California High-Speed Rail Authority will find the tens of billions of dollars needed to finish it.

Cooper did not commit to holding a new inquiry and instead stressed the importance of implementing the recommendations of inquiries that had already been completed.