HC Deb 22 February 1989 vol 147 cc691-2W
74. Mr. Waller

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the effect on the cost of providing local government services since 1981 by means of competitive tendering.

Mr. Gummer

No precise figures are available but I refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim) on 15 February at column278.