§ Mr. Franksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authority direct labour organisations made an operating loss; how much was the 158W loss; what was the turnover of each relevant organisation; and what was the loss as a percentage of turnover for each of the last three years.
§ Mrs. RumboldInformation for the years 1982–83 and 1983–84 is available in the Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy's annual publication "Direct Labour Organisations Statistics". I shall write to my hon. Friend with such information as is available for 1984–85 from those DLO annual reports which have been forwarded to my Department.