Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 December 1973.
Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the West Dock scheme was originally estimated to cost just over £13 million and is now costing over £20 million? Is this yet another attempt by the Prime Minister to cut prices at a stroke? Was not the decision to authorise this scheme politically motivated from the start? Should not the investment have gone to the South Wales ports, which over the last decade have enjoyed the best profit record of ports in the British Isles?