HC Deb 26 February 1993 vol 219 c753W
Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost of hiring Bray private investigators to examine the background of persons protesting against the road through Twyford Down.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

My Department has not employed Bray's Detective Agency (Southampton) Ltd. to examine the background of persons protesting against the M3 through Twyford Down. They have been employed to serve papers on people who have trespassed on the Department's land and to photograph trespassers. To date the agency has been paid approximately £7,000 for this work.