HC Deb 23 June 1992 vol 210 cc113-4W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will provide a separate estimate for the appropriate allowance for price inflation in civil engineering for each year since November 1988 for the construction of each of(a) the Cardiff bay barrage, (b) the foreshore promenade beneath Penarth Head, (c) the outer harbour, (d) the breasting dolphins and (e) the alternative feeding grounds for wading birds specified as works 1–5 in the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill.

Mr. David Hunt

The appropriate allowance for price inflation in civil engineering, according to the PSA civil engineering cost indices, for each year since November 1988 is:

Per cent.
November 1988—November 1989 9.2
November 1989—November 1990 7.6
November 1990—October 1991 5.5

These are applied to each of (a) the Cardiff bay barrage, (b) the foreshore promenade beneath Penarth Head, (c) the outer harbour, (d) the breasting dolphins and (e) the alternative feeding grounds.