HC Deb 25 January 1984 vol 52 c619W
Mr. Murphy

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Hertfordshire. West (Mr. Jones) on 17 January, Official Report, c. 199, if he will set out the method by which the performance aim figure of £110 million was arrived at for the Anglian water authority.

Mr. Waldegrave

In common with other regional water authorities the Anglian water authority was asked by the Department to set out in its plan last year proposals for limiting operating costs up to 1986–87. These were discussed between the authority and the Department and the agreed performance aim takes into account reasons for increases in costs, such as population growth, as well as expected savings including those stemming from the authority's management re-organisation and from the use of telemetry and other improvements in technology.