§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has set the British Railways Board an external finance limit consistent with his latest estimate of its outturn for 1996–97. [19413]
§ Mr. WattsI have today set the British Railways Board an external finance limit of £10 million for 1996–97. This limit is consistent with the estimate of 1996–97 outturn provision for the railway industry of £780 million announced by my right hon. Friend in his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Shaw) of 26 November 1996,Official Report, column 160.