§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table showing the amount paid to each of his Department's inspectors for the reports published between 1979 and 1985.
§ Mr. Neil HamiltonThe information requested by the hon. Member is set out in the table. The figures for costs include expenses incurred by the inspectors.
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Company Date of publication Accountant inspectors costs (inc support staff) £ (000's) Legal inspectors costs (inc support staff) £ (000's) Total £ (000's) Brayhead Ltd 17 July 1979 — — (i) Larkfold Holdings Ltd 7 June 1979 66 18 84 Kina Holdings Ltd 24 March 1981 218 22 240 Scotia Investments Ltd 22 January 1981 270 83 353 North Devon Railway Company Ltd 22 February 1979 — — (ii) AEG-Telefunken (UK) Ltd 6 September 1979 42 5 47 Credit Collections Ltd Norwest Holst Ltd 23 June 1982 69 63 132 Gilgate Holdings Ltd 8 September 1981 628 28 656 Rayborne Group Ltd Calomefern Ltd Desadean Properties Ltd Aveley Laboratories Ltd 19 May 1981 17 6 23 Peachey Property Corp Ltd 30 January 1979 — — (i) Peek Foods Ltd 8 December 1981 — — (i) Orbit Holdings Ltd 23 December 1981 30 6 36 Ozalid Group Holdings Ltd 13 March 1980 84 22 106 The United Industrial Company Ltd 17 March 1981 83 7 90 Fourth City and Commercial Investments Trust Ltd 27 January 1982 268 44 312 Systematic Tooling Ltd Excelads Ltd Cambramain Ltd Ozalid Group Holdings Ltd 13 March 1980 84 22 106 Ramor Investments Ltd 22 March 1983 651 109 760 (iii) Derritron Ltd (interim) Saint Piran Ltd 4 December 1980 — — 191 (iv) (interim) 16 April 1981 (final) Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd 5 August 1980 — — (ii) Dunlop Holdings Ltd 17 February 1981 — — (ii) (interim) House of Fraser Plc 9 August 1984 — 149 149 (i) Cost information no longer available.
(ii) Inspectors were Departmental officers and the cost of their investigation is not available.
(iii) Costs are total costs of the investigation.
(iv) Detailed cost information is no longer available.