§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) when he expects to publish the report from the Channel Tunnel sponsors which he received last spring;
(2) when he expects to publish a report on the economic feasibility of a Channel Tunnel; and if it will include a full cost-benefit appraisal.
§ Mr. PeytonThe results of the current work, which includes a transport cost/ benefit study, will be made available before any decision is taken whether to proceed to construction of a tunnel; this is unlikely to be before the summer.
§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many senior civil servants have left his Department who had worked on the Channel Tunnel project; and how many of them 361W found employment with private bodies sponsoring a Channel Tunnel project.
§ Mr. PeytonTwo have left the Department. One of them since he left has with departmental permission undertaken part-time lecturing work for the British Channel Tunnel Company.