Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 April 1987.
Christopher Chope
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment)
12:00,
1 April 1987
If the hon. Gentleman looks carefully at the way in which the question that he asks is answered in the green paper, he will see that the examples are only examples and will by no means definitely be the resulting figures. The precise resulting figures will depend upon whether the authorities concerned spend wisely.
A Green Paper is a tentative report of British government proposals without any commitment to action. Green papers may result in the production of a white paper.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_paper
