HC Deb 06 March 1997 vol 291 c715W
Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has set the British Railways Board an external finance limit consistent with his latest estimate of its outturn for 1996–97. [19413]

Mr. Watts

I have today set the British Railways Board an external finance limit of £10 million for 1996–97. This limit is consistent with the estimate of 1996–97 outturn provision for the railway industry of £780 million announced by my right hon. Friend in his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Shaw) of 26 November 1996,Official Report, column 160.

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