§ Mr. CohenTo ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what use the Church Commissioners have made of private detectives in each of the last five years; at what cost; and if he will list the firms involved.
§ Mr. Michael AlisonThe Commissioners have used private detectives over the last five years to trace and to 453W serve legal documents on debtors. Information on the cost in each case is held on a case by case basis and the total cost is not, therefore, readily calculable. The firms involved are Andersons; Barrington Investigations; D-Tech; Finlay's Bureau of Investigations Ltd.; Lewis and Elliott; MacNab and Co; Madagans; M. J. Kane and Associates; Nicholas Linden and Pinkertons.