§ Mr. Robert C. Brownasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will set out in the Official Report the total amount of support from public funds over the last three years to each public sector industry for which his Department has been responsible.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mr. Proctor) on 6 July, at column 328. In addition, the cost of payments made from public funds to redundant miners under the redundant miners payments scheme amounted to £15.7 million in 1980–81, £48.8 million in 1981–82 and £81.2 million in 1982–83.
§ Mr. Robert C. Brownasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will set out in the Official Report the tax paid by each public sector industry for which his Department has been responsible and any additional loans made to the national loans fund or levies paid to the Secretary of State in each of the last 10 years to the latest date available.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerI refer the hon. Member to the reports and accounts of the British Gas Corporation and the British National Oil Corporation for the relevant years for the figures he is seeking.