Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman: Reading.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1993.

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Photo of David Curry David Curry , Skipton and Ripon 12:00, 20 October 1993

Everybody is chasing a piece of paper that came from the county councils which quotes that figure. That is not my Department's estimate. If I may say so, the county councils who expect their lives to be relatively short-lived perhaps have some interest in exaggerating the transitional costs.