Allegations & Questions · Nigel Merrifield
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Professional affiliation & public office
Nigel Merrifield · Estates Specialist · National Grid
Organisation: National Grid Electricity Distribution.
Role and organisation recorded in the March 2025 referral correspondence.
Documented involvement
Angela Caddy’s reply identifies him as the Estates Specialist to whom the enquiry was referred. No reply from him is reproduced in this source. That does not establish what happened outside the supplied pages, and it does not identify him as the person called Tom in the family’s later office-visit account.
Source references: G, p. 1.
Questions connected to this party
The question connections.
No question in this register is recorded as sent directly to Nigel Merrifield. Being named in a document is not the same as being asked a question.
Related questions · see recipient details.
Mentioned in the question · not its recorded addressee
Where is the promised substantive response?
On 7 May 2026 you promised a substantive response to the recent Shackson correspondence. Where is that response? Separately, which dated answer resolves the Skea email-authentication and BH68 agreement questions? Produce the answers and supporting records. If these points remain unanswered, why, what prevents an answer, and when will you provide one?
Why this matters Answerability
A promise of a substantive response gives the family a concrete commitment against which to ask what happened next. An acknowledgement leaves the underlying verification work unfinished. Accountability requires the promised answer, its supporting records or an explanation of what prevents it.
Sending status Not yet sent
What the supplied reply addresses
The 10 March 2025 message records a referral. On 24 April 2026 Mark Hacking says he is instructed that earlier requests were dealt with and asks what further material is sought. On 7 May he acknowledges the Skea letter and promises a substantive response to recent Shackson correspondence. No later substantive answer is included in the supplied export.
This follow-up tests the 24 April 2026 statement that earlier requests were dealt with and the 7 May promise concerning Shackson correspondence against the replies and records. It separately asks about Skea authentication, without treating that as the express subject of the promise. Mr J reports on 12 September 2026 that no later substantive answer was received; later correspondence has not been independently checked. No sending date or deadline is recorded for this new consolidated question.
Documents: G, pp. 1–5 · J, pp. 1–3
Related reporting
Nick Shackson, National Grid and the BH68 plan: the questions in the record.
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