§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for Employment pursuant to his answer of 8 May, Official Report, column 433, why it is not possible to estimate the total costs of dispersal of the Health and Safety Executive staff to Merseyside, nor to estimate separately that of Her Majesty's nuclear installations inspectorate; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyFigures for many dispersal-related costs—for example, accommodation, travel and subsistence, recruitment, staff training, post and telecommunications — would involve making assumptions, for which there could be no proper basis, about what these costs would have been if all Health and Safety Executive headquarters staff had stayed in London.