Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 6 March 2008.
The Chief Secretary told us in the debate on the Banking (Special Provisions) Bill that Granite was not being taken into public ownership—she has just confirmed that again now—and that it was not being guaranteed by the Government. Was she not aware that, in the week before that debate, the Office for National Statistics had determined that Granite's debts would be included in the public sector net debt?