HC Deb 05 May 1994 vol 242 c600W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will estimate the cost of employing consultants in connection with privatisation programmes in which his Department and the Department of Energy have been engaged since 1980.

Mr. Heseltine

[holding answer 4 May 1994]: A reply would incur disproportionate cost in view of the number of privatisations since 1980.