Christopher Huhne: ...bumble-bee (Bombus subterraneus), (d) New Forest cicada (Cicadetta montana), (e) Ivell's sea anemone (Edwardsia ivelli), (f) Black-backed meadow ant (Formica pratensis), (g) Nomad errans—a cuckoo bee, (h) Stenus palposus—a rove beetle and (j) Essex emerald (Thetidia smaragdaria maritima) are (i) extinct and (ii) extant in the UK.
Christopher Huhne: ...more than four in five such schemes right across the government had exceeded their original budget. If the Home Secretary believes that he is going to stay within his budget, he is living in cloud cuckoo land. The Home Office has already pushed a substantial part of the scheme's cost beyond the planning period, so we do not really know whether the cost that the Home Secretary has mentioned...