§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answers to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson), of 3 May,Official Report, column 466, and to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson), of 26 May, Official Report, column 284, if he will show for each separate invoice supplied to his Department by Dewe Rogerson for advice 166W on his Department's marketing strategy for rail privatisation, (a) the date on which the invoice was received by his Department, (b) the date on which the invoice was paid by his Department and (c) the amount contained in each separate invoice, inclusive of value added tax; whether he has now received the final invoice from Dewe Rogerson; which is the total amount inclusive of value added tax, which his Department will have paid to Dewe Rogerson by the time its contract expires; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information requested in parts(a), (b) and (c) is commercially confidential. Dewe Rogerson's final invoice has not yet been received and it is not therefore possible to provide a figure for the total amount. To date, Dewe Rogerson has been paid £566,000, including VAT, for this advice.