§ Sir Hector MonroTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish the details collected in the survey of shop prices of new guns before 22 September 1987 on which he is basing his firearms compensation scheme;
(2) if he will publish the details collected in the survey of auction prices of guns before 22 September 1987.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe formula for payments under the Government's buy-in scheme which I announced by648W way of a written answer on 17 May 1988 in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Sir E. Griffiths) was based on a study of trade buying-in prices which included information from a leading auction house and retail prices obtained from various trade publications.